Men Without Women (short story collection)

"Ten Indians" follows Hemingway's character Nick Adams as he returns home to his father from a Independence Day celebration with the Garner family. The title is derived from a comment made by Mr. Garner - "That makes nine of them" - after moving an Indian (Native American) who had passed out on the road.

"A Canary for One" follows an American married couple on a train through France who ride with another American woman they meet on the trip. The story is told from the point of view of the husband. The American woman is noted to be hard of hearing, and has a canary with her, to give to her daughter. When the American woman finds out that the narrator is also American, after initially taking them to be British, she comments to the narrator's wife numerous times that American men were the only ones worth marrying. The story concludes with the narrator revealing that he and his wife were returning to Paris to set up separate residences.

"An Alpine Idyll" is another Nick Adams story, which sees a mature Nick and a friend, John, returning from a ski trip in the mountains. The story takes place in spring, with the characters noting that the season was not good for skiing and lamenting that they had stayed in the mountains too long. The story begins with Nick and John witnessing a peasant burial. The story concludes with Nick and John, who had gone into an inn for drinks, having a discussion with the innkeeper and the sexton who had performed the burial. There is a revelation that the peasant widower, who had been snowbound with his dead wife for months, had reportedly kept her body in the woodshed and used her mouth to hold a lantern. The characters wonder whether the story was true, and the innkeeper indicated it must have been, since the peasants were "beasts."

"A Pursuit Race" tells the story of a man involved in a "pursuit race" with a burlesque show. The story takes place within a single hotel room, where the racer's boss finds him. It is first made to seem that the racer is drunk, but it is eventually established that the racer is high on heroin, which is revealed when the racer shows his boss track marks on his arm. The boss attempts to help the racer, but eventually leaves the man alone in the hotel room.

"Banal Story" is a short parody, which depicts a character reading The Forum magazine. The beginning of the story contains a series of hypothetical questions from the fictional copy of Forum the character is depicted as reading. The story ends with Hemingway describing the death of a bullfighter named Maera, and its aftermath.