Yet Hemingway’s rebuttal to Faulkner – “does he really think big emotions come from big words?” – is also proven correct, as with a few sparse words Hemingway evokes the oppressive heat that exacerbates the tension in the couple’s strained conversation. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry.” William Faulkner’s comment on Hemingway – that “he has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary” – is certainly in evidence here, with descriptions such as “The girl was looking off at the line of hills.
This celebrated short story is less than 1,500 words long, and comprises mostly dialogue between an unnamed American man and woman in Spain. Hills Like White Elephants – Ernest Hemingway (1927) The story is set by the Ebro river in Spain. But even the greatest short stories are generally ignored: how many people would first think of Ernest Hemingway as the author of ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ rather than, say, The Sun Also Rises or For Whom the Bell Tolls? In this article we’re going to look at the top English-language short stories that everyone should read. There are rare exceptions, many of them made into films, such as Philip K Dick’s ‘We Can Remember It For You Wholesale’ (adapted into the much less enjoyably titled Total Recall) or Annie Proulx’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ in fact, it’s arguable that short stories are better suited to adaptation into film format than longer fiction. Yet truly great short stories are few and far between. We suffer from the idea that short stories are something people write when they don’t have the stamina for a novel. Perhaps the problem here is that we are all taught to write short stories churning one out in under an hour used to be a requirement of the Year 6 SATs in England. But tell them that you love short stories, and you’re in danger of them concluding that you don’t have much of an attention span. Tell them that you adore modern theatre and you’ll sound like an intellectual. Tell them that you’re a big fan of poetry and they’ll think you’re sophisticated and cultural.
Tell someone that you love great Victorian novels, and they’re likely to nod in approval. 9 Classic Novels for Students of English as a Foreign Language.12 Essential English Novels Everyone Should Read
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