In Our Time

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In Our Time is a 1925 short story collection by Ernest Hemingway that helped establish his distinctive minimalist style and major themes of war, loss, and disillusionment.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
short story collection
author Ernest Hemingway
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception highly influential in modern American literature
firstEditionPlace New York City
follows Three Stories and Ten Poems
genre modernist literature
short stories
hasAdaptation stage adaptations of selected stories
hasPart A Very Short Story
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I
Big Two-Hearted River: Part II
Cat in the Rain
Cross-Country Snow
Indian Camp
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot
My Old Man
Out of Season
Soldier’s Home
The Battler
The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife
The End of Something
The Revolutionist
The Three-Day Blow
interchapter vignettes
hasSubject World War I
bullfighting
coming of age
fishing
includedIn Hemingway short story collections
influenced 20th-century American short fiction
language English
literaryPeriod Lost Generation
mainCharacter Nick Adams
mediaType print
notableFor Nick Adams stories sequence
establishing Hemingway’s distinctive style
pageCount 160 (approximate, first edition)
precededBy In Our Time self-linksurface differs
surface form: in our time (1924 Paris edition)
publicationDate 1925
publisher Boni & Liveright
setting Europe
United States of America
surface form: United States

post–World War I era
style iceberg theory
minimalist prose
theme alienation
disillusionment
loss
masculinity
trauma
war

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BBC Radio 4 notableProgramme In Our Time
Ernest Hemingway notableWork In Our Time
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