The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, the so-called "Mah 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. It is not, despite the title, complete.

There were only a small handful of stories published during Hemingway's lifetime that are not included in The First Forty-Nine. There is a set of five written during the Spanish Civil War ("The Denunciation", "The Butterfly and the Tank", "Night Before Battle", "Under The Ridge" and "Nobody Ever Dies"). All but "Nobody Ever Dies" 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.

Holiday magazine published two of Hemingway's short children's stories, "The Good Lion" and "The Faithful Bull", in its March 1951 issue. Only two more short stories were to appear in Hemingway's lifetime: "Get A Seeing-Eyed Dog" and "A Man Of The World".

After Hemingway's suicide, Scribners 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The Nick Adams Stories (1972) which contains many old stories already collected in The First Forty-Nine as well as some unpublished pieces (much of it material that Hemingway clearly rejected). Among these latter include "Three Shots", "The Last Good Country" (part of an unfinished novella) and "Summer People".

In 1987 a few more unpublished stories were included in the Finca Vigia edition of The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway, a roundup of most (but strangely not all of the "new" Nick Adams stories) of what had been published to date. "An African Story" was derived from the recently published (unfinished and heavily edited) novel The Garden of Eden (1986). The Finca Vigia edition also strangely saw fit to include two parts of the 1937 novel To Have And Have Not in their original magazine versions. The other "Previously Unpublished Fiction" was: "Black Ass at the Cross Roads", "Landscape with Figures", "I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something", "Great News from the Mainland", and "The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".

The most complete collection of Hemingway's short fiction, assembled in a rational manner, is the Everyman's Library The Collected Stories (1995). Introduced by James Fenton, it is divided into two parts; works published during Hemingway's lifetime, and all that has come out since.