The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) published by Scribner's on 14 October 1938. . It contains Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column, and 49 short stories.
Many of the stories of the collection exist in other collections, including In Our Time, Men Without Women, Winner Take Nothing and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Some of the collection's impor...
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The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) published by Scribner's on 14 October 1938. . It contains Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column, and 49 short stories.
Many of the stories of the collection exist 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, the book also includes some longer stories, among them "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
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.
Amongst the short stories, the book includes Hemingway's previous volumes In Our Time, Men Without Women and...
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