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Publisher's PrefaceThere 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 ...
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