The Fifth Column (1938)

by Ernest Hemingway

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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.… (more)

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wasn't really my cup of tea and the ending was quite disappointing.
But it's still Hemingway and I love his was of writing and the way he uses and describes his scenes in this book is just great. (

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lisa.isselee | Sep 26, 2014 |

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Ernest Hemingway	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Schnabel, Ernst	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Zelené pahorky africké ; Mít a nemít ; Pátá kolona by Ernest Hemingway

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The First Forty-Nine Stories and the Play The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway

Tutti i racconti by Ernest Hemingway (indirect)

6 Volume Set: Death in the Afternoon / A Farewell to Arms / The Fifth Column and the First 49 Stories / For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Sun Also Rises / To Have and to Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (indirect)

Fifth Column: And Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War by Ernest Hemingway

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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.

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