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In Our Time Lesson Plan

Introduction to In Our Time

The first collection of Hemingway’s short stories, In Our Time has had a surprising journey to publication and continues to change even after hitting bookshelves. They had their beginning as six paragraph-long vignettes that Ezra Pound published in the 1923 edition of the literary magazine The Little Review. In 1924, Pound added five more vignettes, labeled them as chapters, and collected them in a book titled in our time. The following year, Hemingway added more short stories and spread the chapters out as a counter-narrative, resulting in a novel in stories called In Our Time. At the request of his publisher, Hemingway removed a Nick Adams story called “Up in Michigan” and replaced it...

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