The Snows of Kilimanjaro

by Ernest Hemingway

The Snows of Kilimanjaro: What Do I Read Next?


  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition (1987) collects all of Hemingway’s short stories. As a body, they are truly remarkable, but the early stories—‘‘Big Two-Hearted River,’’ ‘‘Ten Indians,’’ ‘‘Cat in the Rain,’’ ‘‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,’’ and many others—are haunting for the way that they embody Hemingway’s ‘‘iceberg’’ principle of writing, in which a writer should leave out seven-eighths of the information in the story.
  • Hemingway’s most famous novel is

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