Ernest Hemingway, The Fifth Column and Forty-Nine Stories

Robert E. Fleming (University of New Mexico)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1938

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play
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The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories

(1938) collected all of the short stories Ernest Hemingway had published up to that date and his only full-length play,

The Fifth Column

. Besides reprinting the stories from

Three Stories and Ten Poems

In Our Time

Men Without Women

, and

Winner Take Nothing

, the collection offered Hemingway's four most recent stories, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, “The Capital of the World”, and “Old Man at the Bridge”. The first two of these stories are among Hemingway's most popular short works and are frequently anthologised.

Before writing The Fifth Column Hemingway had attempted the dramatic form only once, in a little closet drama called “Today Is Friday”, printed in Men Without Women, but

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Citation: Fleming, Robert E.. "The Fifth Column and Forty-Nine Stories". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 November 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=871, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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