The short stories and journalism of Ernest Hemingway. Of course, The Old Man and the Sea is not underrated, because it is explicitly mentioned in the Nobel cit

The short stories and journalism of Ernest Hemingway. Of course, The Old Man and the Sea is not underrated, because it is explicitly mentioned in the Nobel citation. Anything longer (all the novels) were overrated and now out of favour. Anything shorter will reward your time. For example... Fiction: A Clean Well-Lighted Place and The Capital of the World. Non-fiction: coverage of the Greco-Turkish war (1919-22), especially Refugees From Thrace and On the Quai at Smyrna.