Which 1927 Hemingway story collection includes “Hills Like White Elephants”?

Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 story collection Men Without Women includes “Hills Like White Elephants.”

Men Without Women was Hemingway’s second short-story collection and was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in October 1927. It contains 14 stories, including “The Killers,” “In Another Country,” “The Undefeated,” and “Hills Like White Elephants.”

“Hills Like White Elephants” first appeared in the literary magazine transition in August 1927 before being collected later that year. Set at a Spanish railway station, it presents an indirect conversation between an American man and a young woman about an operation widely understood to mean an abortion. Its restrained dialogue and omissions are classic examples of Hemingway’s iceberg technique.

The other options are different Hemingway collections or earlier publications. Three Stories and Ten Poems is an earlier 1923 volume; In Our Time appeared in earlier forms before 1927; and Winner Take Nothing was published in 1933. The story’s magazine appearance can therefore cause confusion, but its 1927 book collection is Men Without Women.