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Men without Women is Ernest Hemingway’s second collection of short stories. Summary of the Book Hemingway’s hard drinkers and hired hands, bullfighters and boxers, gangsters and gunmen will spring to life in his exceptionally evocative stories collected in this book. Divorce, infidelity and death are a few other themes poignantly and powerfully portrayed. In this anthology, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life minutiae observed only by the eye of a uniquely skilled artist. Some of the titles included in the book are The Killers, Hills like White Elephants, A Simple Enquiry, Ten Indians, A Canary for One, The Undefeated, An Alpine Idyll, and Now I Lay Me, among others. About Ernest Hemingway Hemingway was born in the United States and was an author and journalist. He has written several classic short stories and novels. He was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1954. He served in the army during the First World War which inspired him to write A Farewell to Arms. He committed suicide in 1961. His other works include the most famous titles like The Sun Also Rises, To Have and Have Not, In Our Time, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Across the River and into the Trees among many other works.