The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

I wonder what the chances would be of "A Day's Wait," one of the stories in this volume, being published today in, say, Harper's were it submitted by an unknown. I would estimate them to be close to zero. What has always struck me about Hemingway is his combination of directness and strangeness. The sentences are mostly simple, but the combination of words is sometimes odd, and the occasional mannered speech serves to heighten and intensify reality. I neglected Hemingway when I should have read him, in school, but it is rewarding to find him in middle age.