Childhood spent among the forest beauties of Michigan, youth in a small town in Illinois, a war that sharply changed life into “before” and “after,” the ups and downs of the difficult profession of a writer, love, difficult relationships with women, marriage, fatherhood... Hemingway talked about all this for many years through his favorite autobiographical character, Nick Adams. Some stories about him were published in collections and magazines, while others were never published. In this collection, “The Stories of Nick Adams” was not only included in complete, but also arranged in plot chronological order. And thanks to this, disparate works turned into a harmonious, clear, unified text - a chronicle of the life of an extraordinary man, whom the whole world still calls “Papa Ham”...