Bensen, Jackson J., ed., The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Critical Essays, Duke University Press, 1975.

This book is a good place to start a study of Hemingway's short fiction. There is an enormous mass of critical information on his stories, and this anthology gives readers an idea of the dominant strains of Hemingway criticism.

Kert, Bernice, The Hemingway Women, W. W. Norton, 1983.

Hemingway continues to be criticized for what many readers see as his insulting and overly simplistic treatment of women; this book is a solid introduction to the controversy surrounding "Hemingway's women" and discusses the wife in "Snows of Kilimanjaro" in particular.

Stephens, Robert O., ed., Ernest Hemingway: The Critical Reception, B. Franklin, 1977.

This book collects critical opinion on Hemingway from the time that his books appeared. Reading a book's initial reviews, and comparing those opinions on a work to critical opinion half a century...