The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway
The Finca Vigia Edition
Publisher's Preface
There has long been a need for a complete and up-to-date edition of the short
stories of Ernest Hemingway. Until now the only such volume was the omnibus
collection of the first forty-nine stories published in 1938 together with
Hemingway's play The Fifth Column. That was a fertile period of
Hemingway's writing and a number of stories based on his experiences in Cuba
and Spain were appearing in magazines, but too late to have been included in
"The First Forty-nine."
In 1939 Hemingway was already considering a new collection of stories that
would take its place beside the earlier books In Our Time, Men Without
Women, and Winner Take Nothing. On February 7 he wrote from his home
in Key West to his editor Maxwell Perkins at Scribners suggesting such a book.
At that time he had already completed five stories: "The Denunciation," "The
Butterfly and the Tank," "Night Before Battle," "Nobody Ever Dies," and
"Landscape with Figures," which is published here for the first time. A sixth
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