In Our Time Summary
Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time Summary

Published in 1925, when Hemingway was 26 years old, living in Paris and just beginning his illustrious career, In Our Time was arguably the most innovative and groundbreaking book to be published in the United States up until that time. Essentially a book of short stories, it is unique, both in its physical layout and in its artistic content.

The physical layout of the book enabled Hemingway to bring together in one volume the literary gems that he had been nurturing in his mind and writing bit by bit since he had started working for the Kansas City Star in June 1917 immediately after graduating from Oak Park High School in a suburb of Chicago. Not only are his short stories organized in a roughly chronological order in this book, they are woven together in such a way as to give a kind of cohesive order so that the whole... View more of the In Our Time Summary