Reading the Classics discussion

Jenn has a selection of holiday-related stories I'm sure she is planning to share, but I've been excited to share a few as well. In 1923, Hemingway privately published 300 copies of his first major work: Three Stories and Ten Poems. Copyright expires after 95 years, so this collection entered the public domain last year.

This weekend, if you get the chance, enjoy his first published short story:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Three_...

I think enjoy does not cover how this short story has made me feel over the last 24 hours, it's far too positive.

Here's my review if anyone is interested.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Elizabeth wrote: "I think enjoy does not cover how this short story has made me feel over the last 24 hours, it's far too positive.

Here's my review if anyone is interested.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36..."

I hadn't read Up in Michigan before (I just did), and probably wouldn't have said 'enjoy' had I known more about it, but I think it's a great early Hemingway story. The language is hard and spare like the land, the small town and its few people. The imagery is sharp and beautiful: I can see this rough country.

SPOILER ALERT
The subject matter, in the end, is as jagged as the landscape. If I had to guess, it's the mid-to-late 19th century near the frontier. It was a time when the strong took what they wanted if they could - in this case the deer, the whiskey, Liz - and was unkind to innocence.

A difficult story to finish: it made me sad. She clearly still likes him, but feels great loss and both knows but doesn't know why. She doesn't even really understand what's been taken from her, but she knows it has, and will never be the same.

Elizabeth wrote: "I think enjoy does not cover how this short story has made me feel over the last 24 hours, it's far too positive.

Here's my review if anyone is interested.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36..."

PS Elizabeth, I thought your review was excellent. Spot on.