The winner comes away empty-handed
The Winner Take Nothing is a collection of short stories by the American writer Ernest Hemingway . It consists of 14 stories and was published in 1933 by Charles Scribner's Sons . After Men Without Women and In Our Time, it is Hemingway's third anthology with short stories. As in the previous collections, The Winner Misses Out any significant stories, such as A clean, well-lit café .
After this collection of short stories, Hemingway's stories were only published individually or in complete editions, such as The Fith Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories .
The German translation comes from Annemarie Horschitz-Horst and was published by Rowohlt Verlag in 1958 . The short stories had already appeared in German translation in 1951 in the anthology 49 Stories , also by Rowohlt Verlag.
The winner will receive nothing contains the following short stories:
- After the storm
- A clean, well-lit café
- The Light of the World
- God bless you masters
- Weather change
- Like you will never be
- The mother of a gay man
- A reader writes
- Homage to Switzerland
- Wait a day
- A natural history of the dead
- Wyoming wine
- The player, the nun and the radio
- Fathers and sons