Winner Take Nothing

First edition volume of Winner Take Nothing.

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

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"

Winner Take Nothing was published on 27 October 1933 by Scribner's to a first edition print-run of approximately 20,000 copies.

These additional stories are included in the reissued collection published by Panther Books in 1977.

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

References

• Baker, Carlos (1972). Hemingway: The Writer as Artist (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01305-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=yP-cgVNr55wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0691013055&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• 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.