The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
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| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Short story collection |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| Publication date | 1938 |
| Publication place | United States |
| 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; all the stories from the earlier collections Three Stories and Ten Poems, In Our Time, Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing; and four previously uncollected stories.
The first British edition (Jonathan Cape, June 1939) followed the U.S. format, but in September 1944 Cape reissued the stories alone as The First Forty-Nine Stories, without The Fifth Column, and with a reworked preface by Hemingway. This became the standard version in the UK and its publishing territories.[2]
Contents
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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.[3]
The play was slated for production in 1938, but setbacks with the Broadway producers delayed production.[4] 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.[5] Hemingway disliked these changes and attempted to have his name removed from the production.[4] 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.[6][5]
The book includes Hemingway's previously collected stories, starting with the early "Up in Michigan" (1921),[7][8] along with his most recent magazine stories, collected here for the first time: "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "The Capital of the World" and "Old Man at the Bridge".
Recent stories (1936–1938)[edit]Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)[edit]
In Our Time (1925)[edit]
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Men Without Women (1927)[edit]Winner Take Nothing (1933)[edit]
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Notes
[edit]- ↑ Oliver, p. 327
- ↑ Audre Hanneman, Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967), pp. 84–85.
- ↑ The Fifth Column and Forty-Nine Stories. The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 June 2007.
- 1 2 Kale, Verna (2008). "The Fifth Column: A Play by Ernest Hemingway (review)". The Hemingway Review. 27 (2): 131–134. doi:10.1353/hem.0.0010. ISSN 1548-4815.
- 1 2 Simonson, Robert (September 16, 2007). "Sifting the Dustbin of Literary History". The New York Times.
- ↑ Hampton, Wilborn (March 31, 2008). "Who Does This Playwright Think He Is? Hemingway?". New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
- ↑ Mellow 1992, p. 472
- ↑ Mellow 1992, p. 514
References
[edit]- Baker, Carlos (1972). Hemingway: The Writer as Artist (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01305-5.
isbn:0691013055.
- 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.
