The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

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.

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Author	Ernest Hemingway
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Short story collection
Publisher	Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication date	1938
Media type	Book
Preceded by	To Have and Have Not
Followed by	For Whom the Bell Tolls

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. Some of the collection's important stories are rather short. It also includes some longer stories, among them "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".[2][3]

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.[4] In 2008 Mint Theater Company staged the play using Hemingway's original text [5]

Among the short stories, the book includes Hemingway's previous volumes In Our Time, Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing. Furthermore, Hemingway 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]

Latest writings (1936) "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" "The Capital of the World" "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" "Old Man at the Bridge" Early writing (1923) "Up in Michigan"[6] In Our Time (1925) "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"[6] "Cross-Country Snow" "My Old Man"[6] "Big Two-Hearted River" (part 1) "Big Two-Hearted River" (part 2)

Men Without Women (1927) "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" Winner Take Nothing (1933) "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"

Notes

1. Oliver, p. 327
2. Mellow 1992, p. 472
3. Mellow 1992, p. 514
4. The Fifth Column and Forty-Nine Stories. The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 June 2007.
5. Hampton, Wilborn (March 31, 2008). "Who Does This Playwright This He Is? Hemingway?". New York Times. New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
6. "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.

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.