This collection is the first book published in the USA by Hemingway after his return from Europe (1925). In most stories, his hero is Nick Adams, a kind of alter ego of the author, whom we meet wounded from the war and bid farewell with a fishing scene in an American lake. Written during Hemingway's most fertile period, these stories are among the best works of the Nobel laureate author and are characterized by a formal and thematic unity, a unity that led many critics to describe 'In Our Time' as a "composite novel," "initiation novel," or "unity of stories." One of the books that changed the form of 20th-century American literature. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]