The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
by Ernest Hemingwayliterary work· published 1936
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"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. The story was eventually adapted to the screen as the Zoltan Korda film The Macomber Affair (1947). "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a third-person limited omniscient narrative with moments of unreliable interior monologue presented mainly through the points of view of the two leading male characters, Francis Macomber and Robert Wilson. There are also occasional insights from the big game themselves. Francis Macomber and his wife Margot are on a big-game safari In Africa.
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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber was adapted into a 1947 film.
