--- product_id: 4881845 title: "In Our Time" price: "170 kr" currency: DKK in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.dk/products/4881845-in-our-time store_origin: DK region: Denmark --- # In Our Time **Price:** 170 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** In Our Time - **How much does it cost?** 170 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.dk](https://www.desertcart.dk/products/4881845-in-our-time) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description In Our Time [Hemingway, Ernest] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In Our Time Review: Hemingway via D. H. Lawrence - This is not my review, it belongs to D. H. Lawrence (b1885-d1930) as I read it in the book 'Selected Literary Criticism', edited by Anthony Beal. I'm copying Lawrence's review of Hemingway's 'In Our Time' here because it is an outstanding review others who come to desertcart ought to read: " In Our Time is the last of the four American books, and Mr. Hemingway has accepted the goal. He keeps on making flights, but he has no illusion about landing anywhere. He knows it will be nowhere every time. In Our Time calls itself a book of stories, but it isn't that. It is a series of successive sketches from a man's life, and makes a fragmentary novel. The first scenes, by one of the big lakes in America--probably Superior--are the best; when Nick is a boy. Then come fragments of war--on the Italian front. Then a soldier back home, very late, in the little town way west in Oklahoma. Then a young American and wife in post-war Europe; a long sketch about an American jockey in Milan and Paris; then Nick is back again in the Lake Superior region, getting off the train at a burnt-out town, and tramping across the empty country to camp by a trout-stream. Trout is the one passion life has him--and this won't last long. It is a short book: and it does not pretend to be about one man. But it is. It is as much as we need know of the man's life. The sketches are short, sharp, vivid, and most of them excellent. (The 'mottoes' in front seem a little affected.) And these few sketches are enough to create the man and all his history: we need know no more. Nick is a type one meets in the more wild and woolly regions of the United States. He is the remains of the lone trapper and cowboy. Nowadays he is educated, and through with everything. It is a state of conscious, accepted indifference to everything except freedom from work and the moment's interest. Mr. Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. Pne wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: getting connected up. Don't get connected up. If oyu get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! `Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that! Mr. Hemingway's sketches, for this reason, are excellent: so short, like striking a match, lighting a brief sensational cigarette, and it's over. His young love-affair ends as one throws a cigarette-end away. `It isn't fun any more.'--`Everything's gone to hell inside me.' It is really honest. And it explains a great deal of sentimentality. When a thing has gone to hell inside you, your sentimentalism tries to pretend it hasn't. But Mr. Hemingway is through with the sentimentalism. `It isn't fun any more. I guess I'll beat it.' And he beats it, to somewhere else. In the end he'll be a sort of tramp, endlessly moving on for the sake of moving away from where he is. This is a negative goal, and Mr. Hemingway is really good, because he's perfectly straight about it. He is like Krebs, in that devastating Oklahoma sketch: he doesn't love anybody, and it nauseates him to have to pretend he does. He doesn't even want to love anybody; he doesn't want to go anywhere, he doesn't want to do anything. He wants just to lounge around and maintain a healthy state of nothingness inside himself. And why shouldn't he, since that is exactly and sincerely what he feels? If he really doesn't care, then why should he care? Anyhow, he doesn't." Review: In Our Time - This is a fine collection of (exceedingly) short stories that deal with existential themes: nature, alienation, and death. In between the stories Hemingway includes even shorter vignettes of cruelty. Brief comments on the stories (with some plot spoilers) follow: "On the Quai at Smyrna" - An American encounters casual cruelty among the Turks and Greeks during World War I. "Indian Camp" - Nick Adams and his father, a scientific man who is quite detached from other people, visit an Indian camp where his father performs a Caesarian without anesthetic. While he performs the operation, the baby's father kills himself by cutting his throat with a straight razor. "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" - Nick's mother is revealed to be weak willed and self-deceiving, and we are not too surprised to learn that Nick prefers his father's company. "The End of Something" - The adolescent Nick ends a relationship with a girl. Before the end comes, Hemingway provides a typically economical but touching depiction of Marjorie, his girlfriend, as they row across a lake with their lines in the water: "She was intent on the rod all the time they trolled, even while she talked. She loved to fish. She loved to fish with Nick." "The Three-Day Blow" - Nick and his friend Bill drink quietly in front of a fireplace during a storm - they are just learning to drink - and later disregard an important gun safety precaution. "The Battler" - Nick encounters a damaged former prizefighter. "A Very Short Story" - (Well, they almost all are.) An American develops an affection for an Italian nurse and expects to marry her, but she loses interest after the end of the war. "Soldier's Home" - A young man returns home after World War I, disillusioned and alienated. "The Revolutionist" - Not really a story at all but a very brief character sketch of a young communist traveling through Italy after World War I. "Mr. And Mrs. Elliot" - A young poet supposes himself to be a superior sort of person but turns out to be ordinary. "Cat in the Rain" An American wife tries to rescue a kitten from the rain. "Out of Season" - A young man wants to go fishing but then decides not to. "Cross-Country Snow" - Nick Adams and a friend go skiing in Switzerland and find it to be a very satisfying experience. "My Old Man" - A man's father dies in an accident, tragically, since his son knows that he is crooked. "Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" - Nick Adams returns to his home ground for a solitary camping trip. "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II" - He goes fishing too. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #80,119 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #385 in Short Stories (Books) #974 in Classic Literature & Fiction #1,726 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 2,150 Reviews | ## Images ![In Our Time - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Lzvy62A7L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hemingway via D. H. Lawrence *by E***N on December 26, 2010* This is not my review, it belongs to D. H. Lawrence (b1885-d1930) as I read it in the book 'Selected Literary Criticism', edited by Anthony Beal. I'm copying Lawrence's review of Hemingway's 'In Our Time' here because it is an outstanding review others who come to Amazon ought to read: " In Our Time is the last of the four American books, and Mr. Hemingway has accepted the goal. He keeps on making flights, but he has no illusion about landing anywhere. He knows it will be nowhere every time. In Our Time calls itself a book of stories, but it isn't that. It is a series of successive sketches from a man's life, and makes a fragmentary novel. The first scenes, by one of the big lakes in America--probably Superior--are the best; when Nick is a boy. Then come fragments of war--on the Italian front. Then a soldier back home, very late, in the little town way west in Oklahoma. Then a young American and wife in post-war Europe; a long sketch about an American jockey in Milan and Paris; then Nick is back again in the Lake Superior region, getting off the train at a burnt-out town, and tramping across the empty country to camp by a trout-stream. Trout is the one passion life has him--and this won't last long. It is a short book: and it does not pretend to be about one man. But it is. It is as much as we need know of the man's life. The sketches are short, sharp, vivid, and most of them excellent. (The 'mottoes' in front seem a little affected.) And these few sketches are enough to create the man and all his history: we need know no more. Nick is a type one meets in the more wild and woolly regions of the United States. He is the remains of the lone trapper and cowboy. Nowadays he is educated, and through with everything. It is a state of conscious, accepted indifference to everything except freedom from work and the moment's interest. Mr. Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. Pne wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: getting connected up. Don't get connected up. If oyu get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! `Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that! Mr. Hemingway's sketches, for this reason, are excellent: so short, like striking a match, lighting a brief sensational cigarette, and it's over. His young love-affair ends as one throws a cigarette-end away. `It isn't fun any more.'--`Everything's gone to hell inside me.' It is really honest. And it explains a great deal of sentimentality. When a thing has gone to hell inside you, your sentimentalism tries to pretend it hasn't. But Mr. Hemingway is through with the sentimentalism. `It isn't fun any more. I guess I'll beat it.' And he beats it, to somewhere else. In the end he'll be a sort of tramp, endlessly moving on for the sake of moving away from where he is. This is a negative goal, and Mr. Hemingway is really good, because he's perfectly straight about it. He is like Krebs, in that devastating Oklahoma sketch: he doesn't love anybody, and it nauseates him to have to pretend he does. He doesn't even want to love anybody; he doesn't want to go anywhere, he doesn't want to do anything. He wants just to lounge around and maintain a healthy state of nothingness inside himself. And why shouldn't he, since that is exactly and sincerely what he feels? If he really doesn't care, then why should he care? Anyhow, he doesn't." ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ In Our Time *by -***- on April 29, 2007* This is a fine collection of (exceedingly) short stories that deal with existential themes: nature, alienation, and death. In between the stories Hemingway includes even shorter vignettes of cruelty. Brief comments on the stories (with some plot spoilers) follow: "On the Quai at Smyrna" - An American encounters casual cruelty among the Turks and Greeks during World War I. "Indian Camp" - Nick Adams and his father, a scientific man who is quite detached from other people, visit an Indian camp where his father performs a Caesarian without anesthetic. While he performs the operation, the baby's father kills himself by cutting his throat with a straight razor. "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" - Nick's mother is revealed to be weak willed and self-deceiving, and we are not too surprised to learn that Nick prefers his father's company. "The End of Something" - The adolescent Nick ends a relationship with a girl. Before the end comes, Hemingway provides a typically economical but touching depiction of Marjorie, his girlfriend, as they row across a lake with their lines in the water: "She was intent on the rod all the time they trolled, even while she talked. She loved to fish. She loved to fish with Nick." "The Three-Day Blow" - Nick and his friend Bill drink quietly in front of a fireplace during a storm - they are just learning to drink - and later disregard an important gun safety precaution. "The Battler" - Nick encounters a damaged former prizefighter. "A Very Short Story" - (Well, they almost all are.) An American develops an affection for an Italian nurse and expects to marry her, but she loses interest after the end of the war. "Soldier's Home" - A young man returns home after World War I, disillusioned and alienated. "The Revolutionist" - Not really a story at all but a very brief character sketch of a young communist traveling through Italy after World War I. "Mr. And Mrs. Elliot" - A young poet supposes himself to be a superior sort of person but turns out to be ordinary. "Cat in the Rain" An American wife tries to rescue a kitten from the rain. "Out of Season" - A young man wants to go fishing but then decides not to. "Cross-Country Snow" - Nick Adams and a friend go skiing in Switzerland and find it to be a very satisfying experience. "My Old Man" - A man's father dies in an accident, tragically, since his son knows that he is crooked. "Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" - Nick Adams returns to his home ground for a solitary camping trip. "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II" - He goes fishing too. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Innocent behind every rock *by R***R on January 26, 2013* Well written stories from the early 20th century. A good example of Hemingway's style. The stories are believable and enjoyable. Wasn't comfortable with the flashbacks to the Spanish Civil War or the bullfighting tales. 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