The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Ernest Hemingway · 1936 CE · Short Story · Modern / American · Modernist

Harry, a writer on safari, lies on a cot with a gangrenous leg from a scratch he did not treat, while the truck that was to fetch him fails to arrive. He picks a quarrel with his rich wife and turns over, in italic drifts, every story he put off writing during the years he lived on her money. The epigraph about a leopard's carcass near the western summit is left unexplained.

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