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Nick Adams

Nick Adams is the popular protagonist of more than a dozen of Ernest Hemingway's short stories written in the 1920s and 30s. Most of the stories were collected in a 1972 book titled The Nick Adams Stories. They are stories of initiation and adolescence. Taken as a whole, as in The Nick Adams Stories, they chronicle a young man's coming of age in a series of linked episodes. The character - Nick Adams - is partly inspired by Hemingway's experiences, from his summers in Northern Michigan to his service in the Red Cross ambulance corps in World War I. The story-arc and themes may have been influenced by Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. The stories are grouped according to major themes in Nick's life.
Nick Adams Stories
The Northern Woods
- Three Shots
- The Indian Camp
- The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife
- Ten Indians
- The Indians Moved Away
Nick is around 6 1/2 in all of these stories
On His Own
- The Light of the World
- The Battler
- The Killers
- The Last Good Country
- Crossing the Mississippi
War
- Night Before Landing
- Nick sat against the wall ...
- Now I Lay Me
- A Way You’ll Never Be
- In Another Country
A Soldier Home
- Big Two-Hearted River
- The End of Something
- The Three-Day Blow
- Summer People
Company of Two
- Wedding Day
- On Writing
- An Alpine Idyll
- Cross-Country Snow
- Fathers and Sons (short story)
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