The Fifth Column: And Four Stories of The Spanish Civil WarFeaturing 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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THE FIFTH COLUMN | 3 |
THE DENUNCIATION | 89 |
NIGHT BEFORE BATTLE | 110 |
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