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"In Our Time is Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, published in 1925 by Boni and Liveright, New York. Its title is derived from the English Book
of Common Prayer, "Give peace in our time, O Lord". The collection's publication history was complex. It began with six prose vignettes commissioned by Ezra Pound
for a 1923 edition of The Little Review. Hemingway added twelve more and in 1924 compiled the in our time edition (with a lower-case title), which was printed in
Paris. To these were added fourteen short stories for the 1925 edition, including "Indian Camp" and "Big Two-Hearted River", two of his best-known Nick Adams
stories. He composed "On the Quai at Smyrna" for the 1930 edition. The stories' themes – of alienation, loss, grief, separation – continue the work Hemingway began
with the vignettes, which include descriptions of acts of war, bullfighting and current events. The collection is known for its spare language and oblique
depiction of emotion, through a style known as Hemingway's "theory of omission" (Iceberg Theory). According to his biographer Michael Reynolds, among Hemingway's
canon, "none is more confusing ... for its several parts – biographical, literary, editorial, and bibliographical – contain so many contradictions that any
analysis will be flawed." Hemingway's writing style attracted attention with literary critic Edmund Wilson saying it was "of the first destinction"; the 1925
edition of In Our Time is considered one of Hemingway's early masterpieces."