A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Summary
Ernest Hemingway

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Summary

Many of the 1933 short stories which make up the collection Winner Take Nothing were published just before the book. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is one of these. Its publication in collected form only succeeded by months its initial publication in Scribner's Magazine, a magazine, not uncoincidently, belonging to the titular publisher who first printed most of Ernest Hemingway's major fiction (including this collection).

By 1933, Hemingway was an established writer and this exceptional minimalist...

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