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THE HEMINGWAY EBOOK COLLECTION

Across the River and Into the Trees

By-Line: Ernest Hemingway

The Dangerous Summer

Dateline: Toronto

Death in the Afternoon

A Farewell to Arms

The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Garden of Eden

Green Hills of Africa

In Our Time

Islands in the Stream

Men Without Women

A Moveable Feast

The Old Man and the Sea

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The Sun Also Rises

To Have and Have Not

The Torrents of Spring

True at First Light

Winner Take Nothing

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

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“In Another Country” and “The Killers”

“The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio”; “Fathers and Sons”;

“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” and “A Day’s Wait”

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CONTENTS

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

A Day’s Wait

The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio

Fathers and Sons

In Another Country

The Killers

A Way You’ll Never Be

Fifty Grand

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO

Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and it is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai “Ngàje Ngài,” the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.