第1章 Preface to "The First Forty-nine"
- The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway（I） 海明威短篇故事全集（英文版）
- (美)Ernest Hemingway
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- 2019-02-25 14:56:12
Part I "The First Forty-nine"
THE FIRST FOUR STORIES ARE THE LAST ones I have written. The others follow in the order in which they were originally published.
The first one I wrote was "Up in Michigan," written in Paris in 1921. The last was "Old Man at the Bridge," cabled from Barcelona in April of 1938.
Beside The Fifth Column, I wrote "The Killers," "Today Is Friday," "Ten Indians," part of The Sun Also Rises and the first third of To Have and Have Not in Madrid. It was always a good place for working. So was Paris, and so were Key West, Florida, in the cool months; the ranch, near Cooke City, Montana; Kansas City; Chicago; Toronto, and Havana, Cuba.
Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope that you will find some that you like. Reading them over, the ones I liked the best, outside of those that have achieved some notoriety so that school teachers include them in story collections that their pupils have to buy in story courses, and you are always faintly embarrassed to read them and wonder whether you really wrote them or did you maybe hear them somewhere, are "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "In Another Country," "Hills Like White Elephants," "A Way You'll Never Be," "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and a story called "The Light of the World" which nobody else ever liked. There are some others too. Because if you did not like them you would not publish them.
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.
Now it is necessary to get to the grindstone again. I would like to live long enough to write three more novels and twenty-five more stories. I know some pretty good ones.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
1938
天之下
昆侖紀元，分治天下的九大門派為新一屆盟主之位明爭暗斗，關外，薩教蠻族卷土重來……亂世中，蕓蕓眾生百態沉浮，九大家英杰輩出，最終匯成一首大江湖時代的磅礴史詩，并推動天下大勢由分治走向大一統。
奪嫡
【古風群像+輕松搞笑+高甜寵妻】【有仇必報小驕女X腹黑病嬌九皇子】《與君歡》作者古言甜寵新作！又名《山河美人謀》。磕CP的皇帝、吃瓜的朝臣、大事小事都要彈劾一下的言官……古風爆笑群像，笑到停不下來！翻開本書，看悍婦和病嬌如何聯手撬動整個天下！未婚夫又渣又壞，還打算殺人滅口。葉嬌準備先下手為強，順便找個背鍋俠。本以為這個背鍋俠是個透明病弱的“活死人”，沒想到傳言害人，他明明是一個表里不一、心機深沉的九皇子。在葉嬌借九皇子之名懲治渣男后。李·真九皇子·策：“請小姐給個封口費吧。”葉嬌心虛：“你要多少？”李策：“一百兩。”葉嬌震驚，你怎么不去搶！！！
長安的荔枝（雷佳音、岳云鵬主演影視劇原著小說）
同名實體書新鮮上市，馬伯庸歷史短小說“見微”系列神作！大唐天寶十四年，長安城小吏李善德突然接到一個任務：要在貴妃誕日之前，從嶺南運來新鮮荔枝。荔枝保鮮期只有三天，而嶺南距長安五千余里，山水迢迢，這是個不可能完成的任務。為了家人，李善德只得放手一搏……古裝版社畜求生記，帝國夾縫中的小人物史詩。
麻衣神算子
爺爺教了我一身算命的本事，卻在我幫人算了三次命后，離開了我。從此之后，我不光給活人看命，還要給死人看，更要給……
棺香美人
我出生的時候，江水上漲，沖了一口棺材進了我家。十五年后，棺材打開，里面有個她……風水，命理……寫不盡的民間傳說，訴不完的光怪陸離。