A book cover for Ernest Hemingway's 'Winner Take Nothing' centered on a dark green background. The cover features a sepia-toned photograph of two men carrying a dead deer in a field under a stormy sky, with the title and author name in blue and black text.

Winner Take Nothing

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A book cover for Ernest Hemingway's 'Winner Take Nothing' centered on a dark green background. The cover features a sepia-toned photograph of two men carrying a dead deer in a field under a stormy sky, with the title and author name in blue and black text.
  • A book cover for Ernest Hemingway's 'Winner Take Nothing' centered on a dark green background. The cover features a sepia-toned photograph of two men carrying a dead deer in a field under a stormy sky, with the title and author name in blue and black text.
  • A book cover for Ernest Hemingway's 'Winner Take Nothing' centered on a dark green background. The cover features a sepia-toned photograph of two men carrying a dead deer in a field under a stormy sky, with the title and author name in blue and black text.
Winner Take Nothing

Winner Take Nothing

by Ernest Hemingway
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First published in 1933, Winner Take Nothing is Ernest Hemingway’s third collection of short stories, a stark examination of loneliness, disillusionment and the quiet struggles that shape human lives. Across fourteen stories, Hemingway moves from the late-night solitude of a café in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place to the uneasy conversations of The Sea Change and the psychological wounds of A Way You’ll Never Be. His characters are soldiers, lovers, strangers and ordinary people confronting moments when certainty gives way to doubt, and courage offers little guarantee of consolation. Beneath the spare dialogue and seemingly simple encounters lies a profound interest in what people conceal from one another and from themselves.

Published between A Farewell to Arms and Hemingway’s later works, Winner Take Nothing belongs to a defining period in the development of modern American short fiction. Its title suggests a world in which victory brings no lasting reward, and where survival itself may demand a difficult reckoning with loss. Hemingway’s characteristic restraint allows gestures, silences and fragments of conversation to carry emotional weight, while his willingness to explore loneliness, sexuality, illness and mortality gives the collection an unsettling intimacy. Bleak yet deeply humane, these stories reveal a writer refining the art of saying more with less.

From the book

“Unlike all other forms of lutte or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Winner Take Nothing

On Winner Take Nothing

“The Hemingway market that wants Hemingway at his cruelest and most brutal, will want this new collection of short stories.”

— Kirkus Reviews, 1933

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