The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Overview
First published in the August, 1936, issue of Esquire, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" has been called Hemingway's short story masterpiece. He wrote the story after his first safari to Africa and was so fascinated by the place that he told reporters he wanted to go back as soon as he had enough money. A wealthy woman read his remarks and offered to finance the trip for Hemingway, his wife Pauline, and herself. Hemingway turned her down, but he wondered what the trip would have been like if he had gone, and the story was born from that notion.
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