The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Bensen, Jackson J., ed., The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Critical Essays, Duke University Press, 1975.

  This book is a good place to start a study of Hemingway’s short fiction. There is an enormous mass of critical information on his stories, and this anthology gives readers an idea of the dominant strains of Hemingway criticism.

• Kert, Bernice, The Hemingway Women, W. W. Norton, 1983.

  Hemingway continues to be criticized for what many readers see as his insulting and overly simplistic treatment of women; this book is a solid introduction to the controversy surrounding “Hemingway’s women” and discusses the wife in “Snows of Kilimanjaro” in particular.

• Stephens, Robert O., ed., Ernest Hemingway: The Critical Reception, B. Franklin, 1977.

  This book collects critical opinion on Hemingway from the time that his books appeared. Reading a book’s initial reviews, and comparing those opinions on a work to critical opinion half a century later, is often enlightening not only as to how opinion on a writer changes but also as to how the institution of literary criticism itself changes with society.