The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Viga Edition, is a
posthumous collection of Hemingway's short fiction, published in 1987. It contains
the classic First Forty-Nine Stories plus a number of other works and a foreword
by his sons.

Only a small handful of stories published during Hemingway's lifetime are not
included in The First Forty-Nine. Five stories were written concerning the Spanish
Civil War: "The Denunciation," "The Butterfly and the Tank," "Night Before
Battle," "Under The Ridge," and "Nobody Ever Dies." Excepting "Nobody Ever
Dies," these stories were collected in a posthumous 1969 volume with his play,
entitled The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War. Chicote's bar
and the Hotel Florida in Madrid are recurrent settings in these stories.

In March 1951 Holiday magazine published two of Hemingway's short children's

stories, "The Good Lion" and "The Faithful Bull." Two more short stories were to
appear in Hemingway's lifetime: "Get A Seeing-Eyed Dog" and "A Man Of The
World," both in the December 20, 1957 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

The seven unpublished stories included in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest
Hemingway: The Finca Viga Edition are "A Train Trip," "The Porter," "Black Ass
at the Cross Roads," "Landscape with Figures," "I Guess Everything Reminds You
of Something," "Great News from the Mainland," and "The Strange Country."

In addition, this volume includes "An African Story," which was derived from the
unfinished and heavily edited posthumous novel The Garden of Eden (1986), and
two parts of the 1937 novel To Have And Have Not, "One Trip Across"
(Cosmopolitan, May 1934) and "The Tradesman's Return" (Esquire, February
1936), in their original magazine versions.

The collection is not, despite the title, complete. After Hemingway's suicide,
Scribner put out a collection called The Nick Adams Stories (1972) which contains
many old stories already collected in The First Forty-Nine as well as some
previously unpublished pieces (much of it material that Hemingway clearly
rejected). From the new material, only "The Last Good Country" (part of an
unfinished novella) and "Summer People" are included in this volume.
For the Hemingway short fiction completist, some readers may turn to the
Everyman's Library The Collected Stories (1995), published in the UK only, and
introduced by James Fenton. Eschewing the pieces collected in The Garden of
Eden and To Have and Have Not, Fenton's collection includes all the pieces from
The Nick Adams Stories as well as a number of pieces of juvenilia and pre-Paris
stories.