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Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent.

Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent. Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on the raw edge, making love,... Read Full Overview

Fourteen short stories, some of them extremely famous: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, for example, and The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio.

Ernest Hemingway's first new book of fiction, since the publication of A Farewell to Arms, contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. "A... Read Full Overview

The stories in "Winner Take Nothing," written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative abilities, gleam with the mark of his singular ability. Hunters, wives, wise old men, waiters, fighters, loved and lost women: they're all here, living on the edge, making love, and... Read Full Overview

Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's third and final collection of stories, it was published four years after A Farewell to Arms (1929), and a year after his non-fiction book about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon (1932).

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Ernest Hemingway's first new book of fiction, since the publication of A Farewell to Arms, contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. "A... Read Full Overview