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The Nick Adams Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
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These classic stories feature one of Hemingway's most famous characters.

"Of the place where he had been a boy he had written well enough. As well as he could then." So thought a dying writer in an early version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The writer was, of course, Ernest Hemingway. The place was the Michigan of his boyhood summers, where he remembered himself as Nick Adams. The now-famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent - a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.

In this arrangement, Nick Adams emerges clearly as the first in a long line of Hemingway's fictional selves. Later versions were all to have behind them part of Nick's history and, correspondingly, part of Hemingway's. This is a must-have for fans of the iconic author.

©2007 Ernest Hemingway (P)2005 Simon and Schuster Inc. All rights reserved. Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories
Powerful Writing • Moving Stories • Masterful Narration • Engaging Collection • Versatile Performance • Perfect Reading
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Great narration but the stories don’t all hold up today. Was slightly disappointed to realise some of these stories today seem a little unreflected and boorish

Some are timeless some dated

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Narrated perfectly. Stories were as only as Hemmingway could write. Very descriptive of his surroundings.

Great Stories

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In Hemingway's best short stories, a curtain is parted then closed, revealing the center of a man's being. Some of these stories are included in this collection, such as "Big Two Hearted River," "The Last Country" and "Fathers & Sons."

Stacy Keach is outstanding, and cleary understands the writer. I hadn't realized how versatile Keach was.

Let Nick Adams introduce you to Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway’s writing is amazingly powerful and it was really brought to life by Stacy Keach. Loved it!

Amazing

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Read some of these in high school and college at univ of mich Ann arbor. But now in chronological order they are moving and explain a young author grappling with growing up. I remember "the battler". How greaat to return to. And Stacy keach is perfect

Nice to return to

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The cello seemed a tad maudlin. The cello seemed a tad maudlin. Plus it’s repetitive

Excellent work.

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I don't really like books that make me feel depressed/nostalgic, but I listed to this anyways, and it does it well.

The most depressing thing I've listened in 2025

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The Nick Adam Stories are on par with the best of Hemingway's writing, and Stacy Keach's reading taps directly into the soul of Hemingway. Amazing.

Absolutely sublime reading of Hemingway.

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Mr. H manages one true sentence when two might do and leaving a word out risks nothing but empty space.
Space occupied but empty notwithstanding.

Straight Goods

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A great mix of Ernest Hemingway stories that will keep you listening/reading for long periods of time. Thoroughly fulfilling work that we enjoyed.

If you like Hemingway, this is for you!

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