Selected Hemingway Stories

A New Audio Collection

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Never before on audio! All-new productions of 24 classic Ernest Hemingway stories.

This brand-new audio collection from the iconic Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author is a listener’s delight. The two dozen short stories presented here have never been published on audio; these new recordings of classic stories will remind listeners of Ernest Hemingway’s incomparable mastery of the short story form.

Included are three short stories on war - by one of history’s greatest writers on the subject - that were never published in any print or audio collection before 2019: “A Room on the Garden Side”, “Indian Country and the White Army”, and “The Monument”.

Also featured here are almost 20 stories from The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: “One Trip Across”, “The Tradesman’s Return”, “The Denunciation”, “The Butterfly and the Tank”, “Night Before Battle”, “Under the Ridge”, “Nobody Ever Dies”, “The Good Lion”, “The Faithful Bull”, “Get a Seeing-Eyed Dog”, “A Man of the World”, “An African Story”, “A Train Trip”, “The Porter”, “Black Ass at the Cross Roads”, “Landscape with Figures”, “I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something”, “Great News from the Mainland”, and “The Strange Country”. Rounding out this audio collection are two classics from the Hemingway Library edition of The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: “Untitled Milan Story” and “Judgment of Manitou”.

An invaluable anthology of beloved favorites and undiscovered treasures, read by acclaimed actor and audiobook narrator John Bedford Lloyd, Selected Hemingway Stories is a must-listen for every Hemingway fan.

©1953 Ernest Hemingway (P)2019 Simon & Schuster Audio

Awesome Stories

I really enjoyed both the narrator and the stories my only qualm with this selection was a lack of organization. If instead of entitling each book as Chapter X they used the actual story name it would be easier to seperate which sorry is which because a lot of the stories have similar content. I would still recommend this selection.

Excellent

There’s a book fragment near the end, the Strange Country, which for my money is up there with his best. The book reader is generally excellent, although he has to read lines of French in a couple of spots and that’s a bit rough. I’ll also note that in some of Hemingway’s Cuba stories early in the book, his narrator uses the n-word frequently. The characters are coarse fishermen types, and they’re supposed to be seen as kind of awful. But it is rather jarring, so fair warning

Masterful Story Telling

Hemingway was a master of the short story. Concise and to the point but lacking nothing in his prose. Good production and well read.

Hemingway Stories

A great collection of Hemingway stories. And very well narrated. Some of them long, some short.

It Was a Different Time

I enjoy Hemingway, especially his short stories. Despite solid narration, I struggled to get into this book as I did with In Our Time & Nick Adams stories. And given the time in which they were written, Hemingway occasionally uses racially inappropriate terms. These pejorative words were common in their day & were used in other Hemingway stories. I don’t expect them to be cleaned up for today’s readers or listeners. Still, it was distracting to hear them spoken casually & frequently. I ended up exchanging this title for A Farewell to Arms.

Amazing

So so so good. The writing and the narrator and the stories. This recording is a gem.

Hemingway performed as it should be

A great selection of Hemingway’s short stories. The production and performance on audio is beautiful.

Hemingway Short Stories

I would highly recommend these short stories. I really enjoyed all of them. Mr Lloyd was the perfect narrator for the stories he kept it very interesting.

An interesting collection of short works.

Selected Hemingway Stories: A New Audio Collection was my introduction/reintroduction to Hemmingway’s story telling. To be honest I don’t remember reading any of his works some sixty years ago when I was in high school. But I’d bet The Old Man, and the Sea was required reading back then.

My reason for listen to this collection of stories was twofold, the entertainment value from the stories, and as an example of writing technique. I’ve read books by many authors who hold Hemmingway up as their ideal author, so I needed to see for myself.

Sure, the stories show their age, the language of the times when these were written is remarkedly different. But so is history and everything else – it’s all about perspective and being able to realize the past was much different than your current present. Just like fifty years from now what was acceptable today will surely be offensive at that time.

After the first couple of stories, I began to see why several authors I read consistently hold Hemmingway as their ideal. His ability to paint such vivid pictures of his scenes through almost stripped-down prose is amazing. His narratives of the wars of the last century paint such a vivid picture of everyday life going on amid such destruction made me feel like I was sitting in the bar in Spain observing all the goings on.

Prior to listening to this collection of stories I wasn’t familiar with John Bedford Lloyd’s narration. After listening to him for over 11 hours I realized how well his style of delivery and diction fit these stories. I’ve begun to look for more titles narrated by Mr. Lloyd to see if I’ll enjoy them as much as this collection of Hemmingway stories.

In this day and age how the hell do you not have names to chapters?

In this day and age how the hell do you not have names to chapters for a collection or anthology?