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en-wikipedia-org-7577		In Our Time (short story collection) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6907	650	76	In Our Time is Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, published in 1925 by Boni & Liveright, New York. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and John Dos Passos,[6] establishing a particularly strong friendship with Pound.[7] Pound's influence extended to promoting the young author, placing six of Hemingway's poems in the magazine Poetry.[7] In August he asked Hemingway to contribute a small volume to the modernist series he was editing, and Bill Bird was publishing for his Three Mountains Press, which Pound envisioned as the "Inquest into the state of the modern English language".[7] Pound's commission turned Hemingway's attention toward fiction, and had profound consequences on his development as a writer.[7] Benson notes that all the fiction Hemingway had produced was included in the collection, that the connection between stories and vignettes is tenuous at best, and that Pound had an influence in editing the final product.[51] Benson calls the work a "prose poem of terror", where looking for connections is meaningless.[52] Conversely, Linda Wagner-Martin suggests the unrelenting tone of horror and somber mood unify the separate pieces.[53] One of its early reviewers, D.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7577.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7577.txt