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First edition (Hanneman A16a). Very good in good original jacket. Spine faded, jacket a bit stained at base of each flap crease, jacket toned, minor loss from jacket corners. 1938 Hard Cover. x, 597 pp. 8vo. Neely jacket design. The first forty-nine short stories and the play The Fifth Column, by the author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, etc. From the jacket: This volume presents Ernest Hemingway's first full-length play, The Fifth Column, and brings for the first time into one collection all the short stories that he has written. Today Hemingway is recognized as the greatest contemporary practitioner of the short-story writer's art - a reputation that rests solidly on such masterpieces as The Undefeated, The Killers, Big Two-Hearted River, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Here is the whole, exceptionally varied series, including four stories that have not appeared in any Hemingway collection. There are vibrant tales built around memories of boyhood in the American Northwest, stories of sport alive with joy of living, tautly drawn recollections of the war years, and revealing impressions of modern life never before disclosed so excitingly or woven into stories with such uncanny accuracy. The Fifth Column was written in Madrid when the front line was fifteen hundred yards from the hotel where Ernest Hemingway lived and worked. The hotel was struck by more than thirty high-explosive shells. Out of this experience comes Hemingway's first full-length play, informed with the terror and truth of modern warfare. The Fifth Column deals with the Fascist organization of workers that works within the Loyalist lines in Spain. The scene of the play is besieged Madrid; the leading characters - an American agent on the Loyalist Inteligence Staff, an American girl collecting material for magazine articles about the Spanish Civil War, a German who is also doing intellgience work for the Loyalists, and a Moorish girl who is intensely pro-Loyalist, but otherwise no better than she should be. The plot of the play involves the ferreting out of a particularly dangerous group of Fascist spies by the young American and his German comrade. It is Hemingway at his incomparable best, unfolding a grippingly exciting drama of a people in the throes of revolution, of the way men and women love and hate, think, act, and feel in the thick of war. Here is the Hemingway who wrote the overpowering Caporetto scenes of A Farewell to Arms, working his particular magic on the bloody conflict in Spain, writing action that moves with cyclonic speed through a pulsating story of love and war - qualities that make powerful, enthralling reading. Includes: The Fifth Column; The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber; The Capital of the World; The Snows of Kilimanjaro; Old Man at the Bridge; Up in Michigan; On the Quai at Smyrna; Indian Camp; The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife; The End of Something; The Three-Day Blow; The Battler; A Very Short Story; Soldier's Home; The Revolutionist; Mr. and Mrs. Elliot; Cat in the Rain; Out of Season; Cross-Country Snow; My Old Man; Big Two-Hearted River (Part 1); Big Two-Hearted River (Part 2); The Undefeated; In Another Country; Hills Like White Elephants; The Killers; Che Ti Dice La Patria?; Fifty Grand; A Simple Enquiry; Ten Indians; A Canary for One; An Alpine Idyll; A Pursuit Race; Today is Friday; Banal Story; Now I Lay Me; After the Storm; A Clean, Well-Lighted Place; 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 Natural History of the Dead; Wine of Wyoming; The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio; Fathers and Sons.
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