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The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
First edition
Author Ernest Hemingway
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story collection & play
Published1969 ( Charles Scribner's Sons)

The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War is a collection of works by Ernest Hemingway. [1] It contains Hemingway's only full length play, The Fifth Column, which was previously published along with the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, along with four unpublished works about Hemingway's experiences during the Spanish Civil War. [2]

The four stories are about the Spanish Civil War: The Denunciation, The Butterfly and the Tank, Night Before Battle, and Under The Ridge. Chicote's bar and the Hotel Florida in Madrid are recurrent settings in these stories.

References

  1. ^ Beegel, Susan (1989). Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction: New Perspectives. University of Alabama Press. p. 11. ISBN  0-8173-0586-6. Retrieved 2009-10-24.
  2. ^ Beegel p. 316