Nick Adams (character)

Nick Adams is a fictional character, the protagonist of two dozen short stories by American author Ernest Hemingway, written in the 1920s and 30s. Adams is partly inspired by Hemingway's own experiences, from his summers in Northern Michigan to his service in the Red Cross ambulance corps in World War I.

Most of these stories were collected in a 1972 book titled The Nick Adams Stories. They are, for the most part, stories of initiation and adolescence. Taken as a whole, as in The Nick Adams Stories, they chronicle a young man's coming of age in a series of linked episodes. The stories are grouped according to major time periods in Nick's life.

Nick Adams Stories

"Three Shots" "Indian Camp" "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" "Ten Indians" "The Indians Moved Away" "The Light of the World" "The Battler" "The Killers" "The Last Good Country" "Crossing the Mississippi" "Night Before Landing" "'Nick sat against the wall ...'" "Now I Lay Me"

"A Way You'll Never Be" "In Another Country" "Big Two-Hearted River" "The End of Something" "The Three-Day Blow" "Summer People" "Wedding Day" "On Writing" "An Alpine Idyll" "Cross-Country Snow" "Fathers and Sons"

Sources

• Hannum, Howard (2001). "'Scared sick looking at it': A Reading of Nick Adams in the Published Stories". Twentieth Century Literature 47 (1): 92–113. doi:10.2307/827858. 

External links and references

• The New York Times review of The Nick Adams Stories
• The Great Michigan Read, a statewide reading program featuring The Nick Adams Stories