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Title: Found it at Last!
Review: I first read this collection of essays and short stories on a rainy afternoon in the reading room at a country club in Nairobi ten or fifteen years ago and was hooked. Several of the stories really stayed with me and I've been trying to find the book ever since. Finally, I asked the librarian at my school (who is nothing short of amazing) what little I remembered about this book - it was published sometime in the 1930s or 40s, it was a collection of work from Esquire and that it included Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". Shockingly, she was able to find it and via Amazon Marketplace, I had it in my hands three days later.It was worth waiting for.These are essays and stories that for the most part, would never be included in an anthology today - they are too much of their time; their humor is too quirky - but that is exactly why I love them. Reading at its best transports you to another time and place and these stories do that.Read it. You won't be sorry.
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