The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine 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

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. 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]

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]

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".^[5]

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"^[5]

In Our Time (1925)

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

↑ Oliver, p. 327
↑ Mellow 1992, p. 472
↑ Mellow 1992, p. 514
↑ The Fifth Column and Forty-Nine Stories. The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 June 2007.
1 2 3 4 "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.
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.

Ernest Hemingway

Bibliography

Novels

The Torrents of Spring (1926)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
To Have and Have Not (1937)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Non-fiction

Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Green Hills of Africa (1935)

Posthumous

Short stories

"Indian Camp" (1925)
"The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (1925)
"The End of Something" (1925)
"The Three-Day Blow" (1925)
"The Battler" (1925)
"A Very Short Story" (1925)
"Soldier's Home" (1925)
"The Revolutionist" (1925)
"Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" (1925)
"Cat in the Rain" (1925)
"Out of Season" (1925)
"Cross Country Snow" (1925)
"My Old Man" (1925)
"Big Two-Hearted River" (1925)
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926)
"A Canary for One" (1926)
"Fifty Grand" (1927)
"Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)
"The Killers" (1927)
"The Undefeated" (1927)
"Che Ti Dice La Patria?" (1927)
"In Another Country" (1927)
"On the Quai at Smyrna" (1930)
"Fathers and Sons" (1932)
"A Day's Wait" (1933)
"The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933)
"A Way You'll Never Be" (1933)
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)
"The Capital of the World" (1936)
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)

Short story
collections

Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
In Our Time (1925)
Men Without Women (1927)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961)
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)

Story fragments

"On Writing"

Poetry

88 Poems (1979)
Complete Poems

Letters and
journalism

Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981)
Dateline: Toronto (1985)
The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011)

Adaptations

The Sun Also Rises	1957 film 1984 film Opera The Select (The Sun Also Rises) Ballet

"The Killers"	1946 film 1956 film 1964 film Bukowski short story

A Farewell to Arms	1932 film 1957 film 1966 TV series

To Have and Have Not	1944 film The Breaking Point (1950) The Gun Runners (1958) Captain Khorshid (1987)

For Whom the Bell Tolls	1943 film 1965 TV series Metallica song

The Old Man and the Sea	1958 film 1990 miniseries 1999 film

Other film adaptations	The Macomber Affair (1947) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) Islands in the Stream (1977)