The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is an anthology

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 of writings by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

 (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

Winner Take Nothing

Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's third collection of short stories, it was published four years after A Farewell to Arms , and a year after the non-fiction book about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon .The volume included the following...

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".

Contents

The Fifth Column is set during the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

. Its main character, Philip Rawlings, is an American-born secret agent

Secret Agent

Secret Agent is a British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on two stories in Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young...

 for the Second Spanish Republic

Second Spanish Republic

The Second Spanish Republic was the government of Spain between April 14 1931, and its destruction by a military rebellion, led by General Francisco Franco....

. 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

In Our Time (book)

In Our Time is the first collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway published by Boni & Liveright in New York in 1925, after a smaller edition of the book, titled in our time, had been published in Paris in 1924...

, Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing

Winner Take Nothing

Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's third collection of short stories, it was published four years after A Farewell to Arms , and a year after the non-fiction book about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon .The volume included the following...

. Furthermore, Hemingway added his latest published works "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"...

", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in Esquire magazine in 1936. It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of...

", "The Capital of the World" and "Old Man at the Bridge" as well as his very first writing, "Up in Michigan

Up in Michigan

"Up in Michigan" is a short story by American writer Ernest Hemingway, written in 1923 and revised in 1938. It is collected in Three Stories and Ten Poems and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories .-Summary:...

".

Latest writings (1936)

1. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
   The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
   "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"...
   
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2. "The Capital of the World"
3. "The Snows of Kilimanjaro
   The Snows of Kilimanjaro
   "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in Esquire magazine in 1936. It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of...
   
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4. "Old Man at the Bridge"

In Our Time (1925)

6. "On the Quai at Smyrna"
7. "Indian Camp
   Indian Camp
   "Indian Camp" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford's literary magazine Transatlantic Review in Paris and republished by Boni & Liveright in the American edition of Hemingway's first volume of short stories In Our Time...
   
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8. "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
   The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
   "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published in his 1925 volume of short stories In Our Time.In the story a doctor hires a three Native Americans to clean up some logs on his property, and one of the workers casually asks him where he stole them from. The doctor...
   
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9. "The End of Something
   The End of Something
   "The End of Something" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway published in 1925 in his collection of short stories In Our Time.-Publication History:According to notes on the manuscript, Hemingway wrote “The End of Something” in March 1924...
   
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10. "The Three-Day Blow
    The Three-Day Blow
    “The Three-Day Blow” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, first published in his collection In Our Time in 1925. The story features Nick Adams, one of Hemingway’s recurring protagonists, appearing in at least a dozen of Hemingway’s stories written during the 20s and 30s...
    
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11. "The Battler
    The Battler
    "The Battler" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It was included in the collection In Our Time .In the story, Nick Adams is thrown from a train and finds temporary shelter at a campfire. There, he meets an ex-boxer named Ad Francis. Francis takes an immediate liking to Adams, who he...
    
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12. "A Very Short Story
    A Very Short Story
    "A Very Short Story" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in as a vignette, or chapter, in the 1924 Paris edition titled in our time, and later rewritten and added as a story to Hemingway's first American short story collection In Our Time, published by Boni &...
    
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13. "Soldier's Home
    Soldier's Home
    "Soldier's Home" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, first collected in In Our Time .-Characters:* Harold Krebs, a young man who is tormented from his experiences in the war. He eventually comes to the realization that he doesn't belong in his childhood home anymore and decides to leave.*...
    
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14. "The Revolutionist"
15. "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot"
16. "Cat in the Rain
    Cat in the Rain
    "Cat in the Rain" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, written while the author was living in France. It was first published in 1925 in the short story collection In Our Time....
    
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17. "Out of Season"
18. "Cross-Country Snow"
19. "My Old Man"
20. "Big Two-Hearted River
    Big Two-Hearted River
    "Big Two-Hearted River" is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway published in 1925 in his first collection of stories, In Our Time. The story is generally viewed as an account of a healing process for Hemingway's autobiographical character Nick Adams, recently returned...
    
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21. "Big Two-Hearted River" (part 2)

Men Without Women (1927)

22. "The Undefeated"
23. "In Another Country
    In Another Country
    "In Another Country" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway.It is about an ambulance corps member in Milan during World War I. Although unnamed, he is assumed to be "Nick" a character Hemingway made to represent himself. He has an injured knee and visits a hospital daily for...
    
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24. "Hills Like White Elephants
    Hills Like White Elephants
    "Hills Like White Elephants" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women.-Plot summary:...
    
    "
25. "The Killers
    The Killers (short story)
    '"The Killers"' is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It first appeared to the public in 1927 in Scribner's Magazine. How much Hemingway received for the literary piece is unknown, but some sources state it was $200. Historians have some documents showing that the working title of the piece was...
    
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26. "Che Ti Dice La Patria?"
27. "Fifty Grand"
28. "A Simple Enquiry
    A Simple Enquiry
    A Simple Enquiry is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It was published in 1927 in the collection Men Without Women.-Synopsis:A major calls his 19-year old orderly into his room and questions him about his personal life...
    
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29. "Ten Indians"
30. "A Canary for One"
31. "An Alpine Idyll"
32. "A Pursuit Race"
33. "Today is Friday"
34. "Banal Story"
35. "Now I Lay Me
    Now I Lay Me
    "Now I Lay Me" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway.The story is about Nick Adams, one of Hemingway's recurring characters, forcing himself to stay awake at night in an army tent during World War I. He is afraid that if he goes to sleep in the dark his soul will escape him. Nick is...
    
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Winner Take Nothing (1933)

36. "After the Storm"
37. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
    A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
    "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926. It was later included in his 1933 collection, Winner Take Nothing.- Plot synopsis:...
    
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38. "The Light of the World"
39. "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
40. "The Sea Change
    The Sea Change
    The Sea Change is a 1998 British-Spanish comedy film directed by Michael Bray and starring Maryam d'Abo, Sean Chapman and Ray Winstone. A workaholic British banker neglects his girlfriend...
    
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41. "A Way You'll Never Be
    A Way You'll Never Be
    "A Way You'll Never Be" is a 1933 short story by Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner in the short story collection Winner Take Nothing. It features the character Nick Adams as he recovers from a traumatic head wound....
    
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42. "The Mother of a Queen"
43. "One Reader Writes"
44. "Homage to Switzerland"
45. "A Day's Wait
    A Day's Wait
    "A Day's Wait" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published in his 1933 short story collection The Snows of Kilimanjaro.The story focuses on a nine-year old boy and his father that calls him Schatz . When the boy gets the flu, his temperature rises to 102 degrees...
    
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46. "A Natural History of the Dead"
47. "Wine of Wyoming"
48. "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
    The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
    "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published in his collection of short stories The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The original title was "Give us a Prescription, Doctor".The story takes place in a hospital run by a convent...
    
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49. "Fathers and Sons
    Fathers and Sons (short story)
    "Fathers and Sons" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published 1933, in the collection Winner Take Nothing. It later appeared in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories and The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories...
    
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