Hemingway's first book published in the United States, In Our Time (1925), was a collection of stories (like "Indian Camp" and "Big Two-Hearted River") linked by the character of Nick Adams, who appears in many of them; by the short vignettes between the stories that tell a story of their own; by the theme of behavior in the face of life-threatening violence; and by the now-famous Hemingway style. The book was acclaimed upon its publication, and it remains a classic.
The Torrents of Spring, a novella that attempts in a rather belabored fashion to satirize the work of the American writer Sherwood Anderson, followed in 1926, as did The Sun Also Rises, a novel about expatriate life in Paris and Spain after World War I. In both subject and style, the latter book is a genuinely radical work of Modern art. (The specifics of its central conflict are never explicitly stated, for instance.) The Sun Also Rises is probably the most-admired of all Hemingway's books. Men Without Women (1927) comprises stories of bullfighters and boxers, including "The Undefeated," "The Killers," and "Fifty Grand." Men Without Women also contains "Hills Like White Elephants," a story told almost entirely in dialogue.
Published in 1929, A Farewell to Arms toned down Hemingway's revolutionary style to yield a more conventional — and a more moving — book than he had produced up to that time; the result was the novel's widespread popular success as well as worldwide fame for Hemingway himself. The story collection Winner Take Nothing followed in 1933. Less consistently satisfying than the two collections that preceded it, Winner Take Nothing nevertheless contained more formal experimentation, like the verbatim foreign dialogue in "Wine of Wyoming."
