Book Of Very Short Stories Volume 3

The Complete Short Stories, Vol 3

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You get the sense that by this point DH was spinning his wheels in the mud since half the stories begin exactly the same: X was Y and she had an income of Z pounds. The only one that really stands out is "Last Laugh" which is just weird and wonderful. I'd give this collection a pass unless you're an obsessive completist who thrives on Lawrence's descriptions of hair and shoes.

Sep 27, Po Po rated it really liked it. I have a throbbing rock hard boner for this guy. D to the H, M F Lawrrrrrrrreeeeeeennnnnnnnccccceeeeee!!! Shockingly disturbing little stories exhibiting man's corruption, greed, lust, jealousy and infinite discontentment.

Humans are powered by selfishness. Bottom line-- humans are little shits. Some are medium to big shits.

Nov 12, Johanna rated it liked it. Ok, I get it. People are lonely and all destroy each other. At moments, I did love this. But mostly, I hated it.

Jul 25, Kezia rated it really liked it Shelves: Lawrence makes these forces dance in a triangle in this collection. New to me is his ghost stories - many of these pieces carry supernatural themes. Not every story is a great success, and the themes of marital and family strife, unfulfilled women, and masculine idealism can feel repet "With my body I thee worship.

Collected Short Stories Volume 3

Not every story is a great success, and the themes of marital and family strife, unfulfilled women, and masculine idealism can feel repetitive. But no Lawrence fan's education would be complete without paying attention to his short novels and stories; the trick is to appreciate the subtleties that make each one distinct. Apr 20, Jennie rated it liked it Shelves: Generally speaking, I really, really like Lawrence, but generally speaking, I also don't really care for short stories that much.

Lawrence has some powerful stories in this collection, but also some that I just didn't understand or enjoy, and a few that suffer from some fairly blatant racism or, more commonly, sexism. Overall, I liked this volume, but not as well as volumes 1 or 2 although I would probably have to reread 1 and 2 to figure out which one was better.

Oct 08, Ingrid rated it liked it. Keeping a list of the names of the characters in each of the stories, greatly helps me to remember the story.

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The Hairless Mexican - 'The First published A book of short stories can be difficult to recall later. Chandra Lal - dangerous agitator. View all 4 comments. Apr 16, Manuel Alfonseca rated it liked it. Seven stories by Maugham, built around Ashenden, a British spy during the first world war, a character based on his own activities in that field. The story I liked most is "The Traitor," about the capture of an Englishman married to a German lady, who is acting as a German spy. But the interesting part of the story is not the espionage plot which is quite small , but its psychological depth and the dilemma faced by the protagonist to fulfill his mission.

Jun 18, Anthony rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Aug 02, Sketchbook rated it it was amazing. His cover, as a writer-playwright, was perfect. He was then writing a comedy, "Caroline," which opened in London in , starring Irene Vanbrugh and Dion Boucicault. He was not amused by the idea of a similar fate and hoped, whatever happened, he could finish his play.

It was a hit and some years later this sequence became part of his writer-turned-spy remembrances in "Ashenden" or, herewith, Vol 3 of his short stories. Not to be missed. Middle-brows like to put MOM down. Once you start reading him, you can't put him down. This is basically a reprint of Maugham's excellent short story collection Ashenden , except that this book also includes the just-as-excellent short story 'Sanatorium', so if you have to choose between 'Ashenden' and this book, go with this one. Nov 07, Ruby Sudoyo marked it as to-read. Feb 05, Dr. So many favourites in this - most people like Rain more than any other, at any rate it is the most discussed one.

The third collection of Maugham's famous short stories.

My personal favourite however is Virtue, an unforgettable one. There are many, many others of course - Round Dozen for one, with amusing details of a much married man aggrieved by one of his wives turning him in. Then there is the heartbreaking one of love and loss that I can't think of the name and it is a rare one for lack of cynical or otherwise bringing the reader down to earth s So many favourites in this - most people like Rain more than any other, at any rate it is the most discussed one. Then there is the heartbreaking one of love and loss that I can't think of the name and it is a rare one for lack of cynical or otherwise bringing the reader down to earth sort of twist.

There is Letter with its murder of a paramour gone wrong due to his having left a letter with his mistress who extorts the full value, There is the story about a widow who married a friend of her murdered husband and the daughter who looks like the second husband. And there is another one with the Italian husband murdering his own father on suspicion of an affair between his father and his wife. And all these are only what I can recall off hand after three decades or so. I suppose the one of love and death with grief and heartbreak remains close to heart, along with Virtue that remains close to conviction, with total agreement with the protagonist by the time the story is over.

I wish I could remember if the story about the expensive wife becoming beautiful is here, or it is by another writer. He found lonely older women of certain financial independence at holiday places and paid them attention, and post marriage gave them a good time until their money ran out.

Then it was time to move on. To his chagrin, there was a small matter of having married only eleven times. Most of his wives were in fact willing to take him back. After his leaving prison, the protagonist received a post card from him one day, and understood he had made his round dozen to his satisfaction after all. The story takes place on a voyage in Pacific where a woman of certain profession is having fun along with a few of males around - after all being alone most of their lives far away from home was tough on the guys, and an accommodating woman who was not merely paid goods but one with some spirit, some heart and joy, was a blessing.

Unfortunately for them there is not merely a usual contingent of the disapproving couples and other respectable members of society but also a preacher very sure and proud of himself, who goes after the woman with denunciation and promised hell fire to all that would consort with her. She is brought to abject surrender and is entirely dependent on him subsequently in her submission to a pious life henceforth. And the preacher is willing to sacrifice himself, to go to her at any hour of day or night she might need him, as his wife very proudly testifies to his selfless sacrifice of his own comforts.

The preacher meanwhile has dreams of hills of Nebraska having read it so long ago I could be wrong about the name of the particular state - and then one day the preacher is found dead, having committed suicide, while there is sound of phonograph and laughter and dancing from the room of the woman who was trying to reform, and a note of bitter victory. She was sincere in her repentance and her attempt to reform, but the high minded preacher all too fallible and unaware of his own Achilles's heel shared with all life, if not more than a little hypocritical in his imposition of his will and his standards of virtue on all and sundry.

And then there is an acquaintance of the writer protagonist really, except one tends to assume he is the writer from colonies in Malaya, a young man who needs to have some company and is introduced to the couple. Some time later, the couple is separated, and the wife is adamant in not returning to the husband, and he commits suicide. The protagonist is called to interpret a letter from the young man in Malaya who has now returned, and informed that he is responsible for the love that the young man and the not so young wife now widow fell into since he introduced them.

The Short Stories, Vol 3 by Ernest Hemingway

The letter is cautious and sympathetic about her loss but equivocal about her prospects of being able to come to Malaya to marry him. The hostess, a friend of the protagonist makes the observation that it is up to him to make the young man realise his responsibility having gone into the love affair and caused the separation, which is when it becomes clear that the wife in love with another man had never crossed her limits being a virtuous woman. And while to some pompous hypocrites it would be an opportunity to gasp and act shocked, today the reality of that statement is only too obvious, what with "the lack of commitment" of males being so huge a problem in US.

Sep 14, Preston rated it really liked it. This is a very entertaining novel. It follows the adventures of a gentlemen spy, who finds himself in the most amusing of circumstances.

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I particularly enjoyed the authors focus on how the protagonist, Ashenden, seems so incredibly easy to relate to. He gets irritated by loquacious train passengers; looks forward to a simple bath every evening to unwind; and considers himself more clever than most people he meets. This book feels quintessentially British. Aug 09, Ash rated it liked it. Aug 04, Ibis3 rated it really liked it Shelves: I quite enjoyed most of these stories, the last of the entire oeuvre, despite how much Hemingway is described as the quintessential masculine writer and so, supposedly the antithesis of what a feminist would like.

I do think I got a lot more out of them by listening to Stacey Keach read them than I'd have derived had I read them myself. They're so plotless and both begin and end rather abruptly and seemingly without reason. On to the novels. Oct 01, Brent rated it it was ok Shelves: Ok, so in truth I gave up on this collection less than half-way through. The stories were simply not compelling.

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I suppose I can live with the idea that not everything Hemingway put out was literary gold. And this is the third volume of his short stories- I'm assuming the first volume contains better stuff. Jun 25, Jayson rated it did not like it. Aug 19, Jennie rated it liked it. Not his best work. Little dark in theme for my taste. Jun 14, Beth rated it did not like it. I guess I just don't "get" Hemingway. I didn't enjoy any of these stories. I'm hoping that since this was Volume 3 that his really good stuff is on volumes 1 and 2.

Jeremy rated it liked it May 13, Phil Coles rated it it was ok Apr 14, Jerry Hook rated it really liked it Sep 11, Fritz rated it it was ok Dec 29, Tommy Reeves rated it it was amazing Jan 06, Tony Snyder rated it liked it May 24, Chris rated it really liked it May 24, Michael Collins rated it liked it Mar 09, Heather rated it really liked it Aug 15, Kate Waldemer rated it really liked it Oct 12, Amy rated it it was ok Apr 05,

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