I QUARANTANOVE RACCONTI | 1954 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The First Forty-Nine Stories is a landmark collection of short fiction by Ernest Hemingway, originally published in 1938 and translated into Italian in 1954. The volume gathers his most significant short stories, including “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” “Hills Like White Elephants,” and many Nick Adams stories. These works exemplify Hemingway’s distinctive style — minimalist prose, dialogue-driven narrative, and the famous “iceberg theory,” where meaning is conveyed through omission and understatement. The 1954 Einaudi edition introduced Italian readers to the breadth of Hemingway’s narrative craft, offering a panoramic view of his treatment of war, love, loss, masculinity, and existential tension.