Nick Adams is Ernest Hemingway's most important and best-liked character. Nick is, in many ways, Hemingway himself, his alter ego: his remembered or imagined self in the earlier stories and his projected better self in many of the later ones. Once Ernest Hemingway created the character of Nick Adams in "Indian Camp," he couldn't let go. More than a dozen remarkable stories chart Nick's growth from childhood through adolescence to early and mature...