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Men Without Women is a short-story collection by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1927 after many of the pieces appeared in magazines. It showcases his early mastery of lean prose and subtext, where what’s withheld matters as much as what’s spoken.

Across bullrings, boxing gyms, border towns, and hospital wards, the stories probe loneliness, desire, and the aftershocks of war. Hemingway’s characters navigate fractured relationships and stark choices, revealing masculinity under strain and the uneasy border between courage and denial.

Standout tales include Hills Like White Elephants, a spare dialogue circling an unspoken decision; The Killers, a portrait of menace arriving with everyday casualness; In Another Country, a meditation on recovery and alienation; and Fifty Grand, a bruising look at the business of sport. Each compresses action and feeling into scenes that suggest moral complexity beneath ordinary talk.

Together these narratives form a compact map of human distances rendered with Hemingway’s hallmark restraint, implication, and hard clarity. The result is a collection that still cuts close to the bone.

The complete list of stories in this book is as follows:

• The Undefeated
• In Another Country
• Hills Like White Elephants
• The Killers
• Che Ti Dice La Patria?
• Fifty Grand
• A Simple Enquiry
• Ten Indians
• A Canary for One
• An Alpine Idyll
• A Pursuit Race
• Today is Friday
• Banal Story
• Now I Lay Me

"MANUEL GARCIA climbed the stairs to Don Miguel Retana’s office. He set down his suitcase and knocked on the door. There was no answer. Manuel, standing in the hallway, felt there was some one in the room. He felt it through the door."