Presents a selection of 16 essays that assembles those approaches to his work which have proved most fruitful, and gives wider circulation to several first-rate studies not readily available.

Introduction / Robert P. Weeks -- How do you like it now, gentlemen? / Lillian Ross -- Nightmare and ritual in Hemingway / Malcolm Cowley -- Hemingway's ambiguity : symbolism and irony / E.M. Halliday -- Observations on the style of Ernest Hemingway / Harry Levin -- Men without women / Leslie Fiedler -- In our time : a review / D.H. Lawrence -- Adventures of Nick Adams / Philip Young -- A clean, well-lighted place / Sean O'Faolain -- The discovery of evil : an analysis of "The killers" / Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren -- The two African stories / Carlos Baker -- The death of love in The sun also rises / Mark Spilka -- The biological trap / Ray B. West, Jr. -- The later Hemingway / Nemi D'Agostino -- Confiteor hominem : Ernest Hemingway's religion of man / Joseph Waldmeir -- The art of evasion / Leon Edel -- A defense / Philip Young.