The Fifth Column

Download or read book The Fifth Column written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.