Now I Lay Me

"Now I Lay Me"
Author	Ernest Hemingway
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	short story
Published in	Men Without Women
Publication type	short story collection
Publication date	1927

"Now I Lay Me" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway.

The story is about Nick Adams, one of Hemingway's recurring characters, forcing himself to stay awake at night in an army tent during World War I. He is afraid that if he goes to sleep in the dark his soul will escape him. Nick is experiencing shell-shock from when he was bombed during a night raid. During the raid Nick severely injured his head. From then on he was afraid to go to sleep at night.

Ernest Hemingway

Novels	The Torrents of Spring (1926) The Sun Also Rises (1926) A Farewell to Arms (1929) To Have and Have Not (1937) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Across the River and into the Trees (1950) The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Islands in the Stream (1970) The Garden of Eden (1986) True at First Light (1999 memoir)

Short stories	"Big Two-Hearted River" (1925) "Indian Camp" (1925) "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (1925) "The Battler" (1925) "A Very Short Story" (1925) "Soldier's Home" (1925) "Cat in the Rain" (1925) "The End of Something" (1925) "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926) "A Canary for One" (1926) "Fifty Grand" (1927) "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927) "The Killers" (1927) "The Undefeated" (1927) "Fathers and Sons" (1932) "A Day's Wait" (1933) "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933) "A Way You'll Never Be" (1933) "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936) "The Capital of the World" (1936) "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)

Short story collections	Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) In Our Time (1925) Men Without Women (1927) Winner Take Nothing (1933) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) The Essential Hemingway (1947) The Hemingway Reader (1953) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969) The Nick Adams Stories (1972) The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987) Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)

Plays	The Fifth Column (play) (1938)

Poetry	88 Poems (1979)

Non-fiction	Death in the Afternoon (1932) Green Hills of Africa (1935) Hemingway, The Wild Years (1962) A Moveable Feast (1964) By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter (1970) Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) The Dangerous Summer (1985) Dateline: Toronto (1985) True at First Light (1999 memoir) Under Kilimanjaro (2005) On Paris (On) (2008)

Posthumous	A Moveable Feast (1964) Islands in the Stream (1970) The Nick Adams Stories (1972) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969) The Dangerous Summer (1985) The Garden of Eden (1986) The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway (1987) True at First Light (1999)

Film adaptations	A Farewell to Arms (1932) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Killers (1946) The Macomber Affair (1947) The Breaking Point (1950) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) The Killers (1956) The Sun Also Rises (1957) A Farewell to Arms (1957) The Old Man and the Sea (1958) Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) The Killers (1964) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965) Islands in the Stream (1977) The Sun Also Rises (1984) In Love and War (1996) The Old Man and the Sea (1999)

Now I Lay Me

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