Selected Hemingway Stories

A New Audio Collection

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

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

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.

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.

Hemingway Stories

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

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.

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.