Nicholas Adams is a fictional character, the protagonist of two dozen short stories and vignettes written in the 1920s and 1930s by American author
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo ...
.
Adams is partly inspired by Hemingway's own experiences, from his summers in Northern Michigan at
his family cottage to his service in the
Red Cross
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ambulance corps in
World War I
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. The first of Hemingway's stories to feature Nick Adams was published in his 1925 collection ''
In Our Time'', with Adams appearing as a young child in "
Indian Camp", the collection's first story.
All Nick Adams stories were later collected in a 1972 book, published after Hemingway's death, titled ''
The Nick Adams Stories''. They are, for the most part, 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 stories are grouped according to major time periods in Nick's life.
''The Nick Adams Stories''
The Northern Woods
* "
Three Shots"
* "
Indian Camp"
* "
The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"
* "
Ten Indians"
* "
The Indians Moved Away"
On His Own
* "The Light of the World"
* "
The Battler"
* "
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"
* "
The Last Good Country"
* "
Crossing the Mississippi"
War
* "
Night Before Battle"
* "'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"
References
External links and references
* Hemingway, Ernest. ''The
Nick Adams Stories.'' New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972.
''New York Times'' review of ''The Nick Adams Stories''The Great Michigan Read, a statewide reading program featuring ''The Nick Adams Stories''
Author surrogates
Characters in American novels of the 20th century
Ernest Hemingway
Literary characters introduced in 1924
Fictional World War I veterans
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