The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
AuthorErnest Hemingway
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story collection
PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
Publication date
1938
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeBook
Preceded byTo Have and Have Not 
Followed byFor Whom the Bell Tolls 

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway published by Scribner's on October 14, 1938.[1] It contains Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column, and 49 short stories.

Many of the stories included in the collection appear in other collections, including In Our Time, Men Without Women, Winner Take Nothing and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Contents

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.[2]

The play was slated for production in 1938, but setbacks with the Broadway producers delayed production.[3] In 1940, a version of the play was produced on Broadway by the Theater Guild. This production was heavily edited by Benjamin Glazer with significant revisions to the script.[4] Hemingway disliked these changes and attempted to have his name removed from the production.[3] This production ran for 87 performances. The play wasn't professionally produced with Hemingway's original script until 2008 when Mint Theater Company staged the play.[5][4]

Among the short stories, the book includes Hemingway's previous volumes and added his latest published works "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "The Capital of the World" and "Old Man at the Bridge" as well as his very first writing, "Up in Michigan".[6][7][8]

Latest writings (1938)

  1. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
  2. "The Capital of the World"
  3. "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
  4. "Old Man at the Bridge"

Early writing (1921)

  2. "Up in Michigan"[6]

In Our Time (1925)

  2. "On the Quai at Smyrna"
  3. "Indian Camp"
  4. "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"
  5. "The End of Something"
  6. "The Three-Day Blow"
  7. "The Battler"
  8. "A Very Short Story"
  9. "Soldier's Home"
  10. "The Revolutionist"
  11. "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot"
  12. "Cat in the Rain"
  13. "Out of Season"[6]
  14. "Cross-Country Snow"
  15. "My Old Man"[6]
  16. "Big Two-Hearted River" (part 1)
  17. "Big Two-Hearted River" (part 2)

Men Without Women (1927)

  2. "The Undefeated"
  3. "In Another Country"
  4. "Hills Like White Elephants"
  5. "The Killers"
  6. "Che Ti Dice La Patria?"
  7. "Fifty Grand"
  8. "A Simple Enquiry"
  9. "Ten Indians"
  10. "A Canary for One"
  11. "An Alpine Idyll"
  12. "A Pursuit Race"
  13. "Today is Friday"
  14. "Banal Story"
  15. "Now I Lay Me"

Winner Take Nothing (1933)

  2. "After the Storm"
  3. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
  4. "The Light of the World"
  5. "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
  6. "The Sea Change"
  7. "A Way You'll Never Be"
  8. "The Mother of a Queen"
  9. "One Reader Writes"
  10. "Homage to Switzerland"
  11. "A Day's Wait"
  12. "A Natural History of the Dead"
  13. "Wine of Wyoming"
  14. "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio"
  15. "Fathers and Sons"

Notes

  1. ^ Oliver, p. 327
  2. ^ The Fifth Column and Forty-Nine Stories. The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 June 2007.
  3. ^ a b Kale, Verna (2008). "The Fifth Column: A Play by Ernest Hemingway (review)". The Hemingway Review. 27 (2): 131–134. doi:10.1353/hem.0.0010. ISSN 1548-4815.
  4. ^ a b Simonson, Robert (16 September 2007). "Sifting the Dustbin of Literary History". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Hampton, Wilborn (March 31, 2008). "Who Does This Playwright This He Is? Hemingway?". New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d "Up in Michigan", "Out of Season" and "My Old Man" had already appeared in Hemingway's privately published debut collection "Three Stories and Ten Poems". While "Up in Michigan" had not been reprinted, the latter two were included in In Our Time and were therefore listed at nrs. 17&19.
  7. ^ Mellow 1992, p. 472
  8. ^ Mellow 1992, p. 514

References

  • Baker, Carlos (1972). Hemingway: The Writer as Artist (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01305-5. isbn:0691013055.
  • Mellow, James R. (1992). Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. New York: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-37777-3.
  • Meyers, Jeffrey (1985). Hemingway: A Biography. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-42126-4.
  • Oliver, Charles M. (1999). Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. New York: Checkmark. ISBN 0-8160-3467-2.
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