Read A Great Story

I have said many times that I only have a high school education which means my mind is not as smart as I wish.

I am not proud nor ashamed that I am not smarter than I am, I just wish my mind was full of endless information.

I have also pointed out that I am not a reader as well, which is really unfortunate because that is one way to gain knowledge.

I will bet though, when I say I have read Hemingway, that will raise some eyebrows.

For those that might not remember Hemingway let me refresh your memories.

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Here is a list of his works.

Novels

(1926) The Torrents of Spring
(1926) The Sun Also Rises
(1929) A Farewell to Arms
(1937) To Have and Have Not
(1940) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1950) Across the River and Into the Trees
(1952) The Old Man and the Sea
(1970) Islands in the Stream
(1986) The Garden of Eden
(1999) True at First Light

Collections

(1923) Three Stories and Ten Poems
(1925) In Our Time
(1927) Men Without Women
(1933) Winner Take Nothing
(1936) The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(1938) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
(1969) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
(1972) The Nick Adams Stories
(1987) The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
(1995) Everyman's Library: The Collected Stories

Anthologies - edited by Hemingway

Men at War

Nonfiction

(1932) Death in the Afternoon
(1935) Green Hills of Africa
(1962) Hemingway, The Wild Years
(1964) A Moveable Feast
(1967) By-Line: Ernest Hemingway
(1970) Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter
(1981) Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters
(1985) The Dangerous Summer
(1985) Dateline: Toronto
(1999) Hemingway on Writing
(2000) Hemingway on Fishing
(2003) Hemingway on Hunting
(2003) Hemingway on War
(2005) Under Kilimanjaro
(2008) Hemingway on Paris

Stage Plays

(1961) A Short Happy Life
(1967) The Hemingway Hero (working title was: Of Love and Death)

I know you are all wondering what Hemingway work I read.

Well, surprise, it is not listed above.

The story I read was the original short short story.

It is a complete story in just six words.

For those of you that have not had the opportunity to read the complete story here it is in its entirety:

"For sale baby shoes never used."

Now that my friends is deep!!!

On the morning of July 2, 1961, some three weeks short of his 62nd birthday, he died at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, the result of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.

Hemingway is believed to have purchased the Boss & Co. shotgun he used to commit suicide through Abercrombie & Fitch, which was then an elite excursion goods retailer and firearm supplier. In a particularly gruesome suicide, he rested the gun butt of the double-barreled shotgun on the floor of a hallway in his home, leaned over it to put the twin muzzles to his forehead just above the eyes, and pulled both triggers.