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Reviewing something like this is difficult, because there’s not a lot that can be said about Hemingway. It is often said that he was a better short story writer than novelist, and while I’ve only read two of his novels I’d have to agree. The First 49 Stories is, obviously, a collection of Hemingway’s first forty-nine short stories. So I picked up this cheap Hemingway anthology, and I’m glad I did, because it was quite good and I think I’m starting to understand him as a writer. I’m not the biggest fan of Ernest Hemingway, but I was in Tokyo’s famous Jimbocho district and I’d finally found an English-language bookstore, a second-storey nook disconcertingly named “Bondi Books” that sold vintage and antiques, and I didn’t feel like leaving empty-handed.

The First 49 Stories by Ernest Hemingway (1938) 414 p.