The First Forty-Nine Stories contains all the short writings from 1923-36, when he was at the peak of writing in this form, including everything from the collections In Our Time, Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing, along with some others.
There can be no better writer than Hemingway to educate you about this, for he was a master of the craft. Short stories are a different form of exercise but, when you accept this, they are entertaining on their own terms. They require more careful attention at a slower pace, whereas even the hardest novels, if you stick with them, can eventually break the dam of your ignorance with their sheer weight and then you understand them. I have been reading Hemingway for about six years now and it has taken me a long time to accept that short stories have to be read differently than novels.
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