Winner Take Nothing

Winner Take Nothing

First Edition
Author	Ernest Hemingway
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication date	27 October 1933
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
OCLC	256703

Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's third and final collection of stories, it was published four years after A Farewell to Arms (1929), and a year after his non-fiction book about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon (1932).^[1]

Content

Winner Take Nothing was published on 27 October 1933 by Scribner's with a first edition print-run of approximately 20,000 copies.^[2] The volume included the following stories:

• "After the Storm"
• "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
• "The Light of the World"
• "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
• "The Sea Change"
• "A Way You'll Never Be"
• "The Mother of a Queen"
• "One Reader Writes"
• "Homage to Switzerland"
• "A Day's Wait"
• "A Natural History of the Dead"
• "Wine of Wyoming"
• "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio"
• "Fathers and Sons"

1977 Reissue

Reissued in 1977, the collection included three additional stories:

• "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
• "The Capital of the World"
• "Old Man at the Bridge"

Footnotes

1. Fleming, Robert E.. "Winner Take Nothing". The Literary Encyclopedia. 30 July 2001. accessed 16 January 2010.
2. Oliver, p. 355

References

• Baker, Carlos (1972). Hemingway: The Writer as Artist (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01305-5.
• Meyers, Jeffrey (1985). Hemingway: A Biography. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-42126-4.
• Mellow, James R. (1992). Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. New York: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-37777-3.
• Oliver, Charles M. (1999). Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. New York: Checkmark. ISBN 0-8160-3467-2.