Winner Take Nothing
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Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 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...

. Hemingway's third collection of short stories, it was published four years after A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway concerning events during the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The book, which was first published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant in the ambulance...

(1929), and a year after the non-fiction book about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon
Death in the Afternoon
Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting. It was originally published in 1932. The book provides a look at the history and what Hemingway considers the magnificence of bullfighting...

(1932).

The volume included the following stories:
  • "After the Storm"
  • "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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  • "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 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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  • "A Natural History of the Dead"
  • "Wine of Wyoming"
  • "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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  • "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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Winner Take Nothing was published on 27 October 1933 by Scribner's to a first edition
First edition
The bibliographical definition of an edition includes all copies of a book printed “from substantially the same setting of type,” including all minor typographical variants.- First edition :...

print-run of approximately 20,000 copies.

These additional stories are included in the reissued collection published by Panther Books in 1977.
  • "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
  • "The Capital of the World"
  • "Old Man at the Bridge"
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