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The Fifth Column and Four Stories of The Spanish Civil War Paperback – May 26, 1998

by Ernest Hemingway (Author)

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Featuring Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War brilliantly evokes the tumultuous Spain of the 1930s.

These works, which grew from Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in and around besieged Madrid, movingly portray the effects of war on soldiers, civilians, and the correspondents sent to cover it. He provides unique insight into how the city itself and the people within it functioned during this time of war. Through love, hate, fear, and brutality, Hemingway explores the complexities that times of war contain in his famed powerful prose.

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154 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Scribner
Publication date

May 26, 1998
Dimensions

5.25 x 0.25 x 8.25 inches
ISBN-10

0684839261
ISBN-13

978-0684839264
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Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner; 1st edition (May 26, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 154 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0684839261
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0684839264
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.25 x 8.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,524,030 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,782 in Classic American Literature
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Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. Their home was at Oak Park, a Chicago suburb.

In 1917, Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris where he renewed his earlier friendships with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Their encouragement and criticism were to play a valuable part in the formation of his style.

Hemingway's first two published works were Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time but it was the satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, that established his name more widely. His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books; Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms.

He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing and his writing reflected this. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in the bestseller, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators but no equals. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

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pmX

These are excellent stories

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2011

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This play and these four stories are exactly what I was looking for when I picked this up. Hemingway is no better than when he is in Spain and especially when he is at war in Spain. I had not known about the play before but it was full of the same characters, same relationships that we see him examining in all his work from this time.

This one is worth picking up, whether you are new to Hemingway, or looking for another gem. He rarely disappoints and certainly doesn't here.

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Always Hemingway

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2012

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One of Hemingway's best! I have read this book at least 10 times over the years. I always find something new each time it is read and recommend this for everyone, Hemingway fan or not.

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Richard

Stories about the Spanish Civil War

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2020

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The play and four stories all share the same background taking place during the Spanish Civil War. Very interesting insight into how the city and people functioned during this time.
The night before battle is perhaps the most intriguing story of the book

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Joe

Insightful and intense

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2020

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Hemingway was a great student of gorilla warfare. This insight seeps through every page. His style is softly intense. A unique view of warfare.

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Richard Phillips

Didn’t read play but dialog in stories was outstanding

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2020

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Hemingway conveyed an immediacy of intense existence in a strange war where men fought, maybe died, then slept in a hotel in Madrid

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Russell Tennyson

A good introduction might be to see the movie HEMMINGWAY AND ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2016

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You gotta be a Hemmingway fan and a student of the SPANISH CIVIL WAR. A good introduction might be to see the movie HEMMINGWAY AND GELHORN.

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Tom Fulery

A superb collection of Hemingway's short masterpieces about the Spanish Civil War

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2017

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A superb collection of Hemingway's short masterpieces about the Spanish Civil War. The Fifth Column is a play, but don't let that keep you from reading it. It's like watching a great classic film, except for Hemingway's cut-glass writing, which is as usual, incomparable.

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yoelarry

"Fifth Column" was a fine read

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2014

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I enjoyed Hem's only published play about the Spanish Civil War. He was there as a war corespondent or ambulance driver but appears in the story as Phillip the main character ( to my mind anyway!) this Play has it all, love, hate, fear, mystery, and the brutality of war. Truly great!

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S. Waikhom

Good Hemingway stuff.

Reviewed in India on January 27, 2020

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The play was simply a great read and the other stories were good, to say the least. Overall a good, entertaining book. I recommend it.

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Stefan Schwarz

Faulty ebook

Reviewed in Germany on May 3, 2018

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This ebook contains plenty of formatting/typesetting mistakes like words put together without space. It's a disgrace. It always upsets me if people put out ebooks for almost the price of a printed book without applying the most basic care to proofread it.

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John Alexander

Barebones Hemingway

Reviewed in Japan on January 1, 2018

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Just the play and the short stories. I didn't notice any typos, which are characteristic of these ebook classics. Pages are numbered. Just fine as long as you aren't expecting any extras.

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Mrs Annice S Brown

Compulsive read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2013

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A really enjoyable book, unable to put book down. I used it as a reference book for course I am reading.

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Alexey

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2023