 First Edition | |
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short stories |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
Publication date | 1961 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781476770208 |
| OCLC | 31044981 |
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1961. All the stories were earlier published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938.
The collection includes the following stories:
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro may refer to:
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"Back Matter". The English Journal. 51 (2): 156–158. 1962. ISSN 0013-8274.
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