The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

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. 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.

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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.

The play was slated for production in 1938, but setbacks with the Broadway producers delayed production. In 1940, a version of the play was produced on Broadway by the Theater Guild. This production was heavily edited by Benjamin Glazer with significant revisions to the script. Hemingway disliked these changes and attempted to have his name removed from the production. This production ran for 87 performances. The play wasn't professionally produced with Hemingway's original script until 2008 when Mint Theater Company staged the play.

Among the short stories, the book includes Hemingway's previous volumes and 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".

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References

1. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story)
2. Ernest Hemingway bibliography
3. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
4. Fifth Column (disambiguation)
5. Fathers and Sons (short story)
6. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story collection)
7. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film)
8. Old Man at the Bridge
9. Up in Michigan
10. On the Quai at Smyrna
11. Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories
12. A Canary for One
13. The Old Man and the Sea
14. In Our Time (short story collection)
15. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
16. Mariel Hemingway
17. The Capital of the World (short story)
18. The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
19. Martha Gellhorn
20. Iceberg theory