In 1938 — along with his only full-length play, titled The Fifth Column — 49 stories were published in the collection The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. Hemingway's intention was, as he openly stated in his foreword, to write more. Many of the stories that make up this collection can be found in other abridged collections, including In Our Time, Men Without Women, Winner Take Nothing, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
Some of the collection's important stories include Old Man at the Bridge, On The Quai at Smyrna, Hills Like White Elephants, One Reader Writes, The Killers and (perhaps most famously) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. While these stories are rather short, the book also includes much longer stories, among them The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway originally published in 1938. It contains Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column, along with all the short stories Hemingway had published to that point.
The Fifth Column is set during the Spanish Civil War. Its main character, Philip Rawlings, is an American-born secret agent for the Second Spanish Republic. The play was poorly received upon publication and has been overshadowed by many of the short stories in the anthology.[1]
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- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
- The Capital of the World
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- Old Man at the Bridge
- Up in Michigan
- On the Quai at Smyrna
- Indian Camp
- The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
- The End of Something
- The Three-Day Blow
- The Battler
- A Very Short Story
- Soldier's Home
- The Revolutionist
- Mr. and Mrs. Elliot
- Cat in the Rain
- Out of Season
- Cross-Country Snow
- My Old Man
- Big Two-Hearted River (part 1)
- Big Two-Hearted River (part 2)
- The Undefeated
- In Another Country
- Hills Like White Elephants
- The Killers
- Che Ti Dice La Patria?
- Fifty Grand
- A Simple Enquiry
- Ten Indians
- A Canary for One
- An Alpine Idyll
- A Pursuit Race
- Today is Friday
- Banal Story
- Now I Lay Me
- After the Storm
- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- The Light of the World
- God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
- The Sea Change
- A Way You'll Never Be
- The Mother of a Queen
- One Reader Writes
- Homage to Switzerland
- A Day's Wait
- A Natural History of the Dead
- Wine of Wyoming
- The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
- Fathers and Sons