Nick Adams

Nick Adams is the protagonist of more than a dozen of Ernest Hemingway's short stories written in the 1920s and 30s. Most of the stories were collected in a 1972 book titled The Nick Adams Stories. They are 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 character – Nick Adams – is partly inspired by Hemingway’s experiences, from his summers in Northern Michigan to his service in the Red Cross ambulance corps in World War I. The story-arc and themes may have been influenced by Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. The stories are grouped according to major themes in Nick’s life.

Nick Adams Stories

The Northern Woods

• "Three Shots"
• "The Indian Camp"
• "The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife"
• "Ten Indians"
• "The Indians Moved Away"

Nick is around 6 1/2 years old in all of these stories.

On His Own

• "The Light of the World"
• "The Battler"
• "The Killers"
• "The Last Good Country"
• "Crossing the Mississippi"

~ age 16-20, late adolescence

War

• "Night Before Landing"
• "'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 (short story)"

External links

• CliffsNotes summary
• Review of 'The Nick Adams Stories'
• The Great Michigan Read, a statewide reading program featuring 'The Nick Adams Stories'

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