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'The Capital of the World' is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. The story takes place in Madrid and follows Paco, a young waiter, and his desires to become a matador.

First published in Esquire in June 1936 as The Horns of the Bull, it was changed to its present title in the short story collection The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, published in 1938.

v • d • e Works by Ernest Hemingway

Novels	The Torrents of Spring (1926) · The Sun Also Rises (1926) · A Farewell to Arms (1929) · To Have and Have Not (1937) · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) · Across the River and into the Trees (1950) · The Old Man and the Sea (1952) · Islands in the Stream (1970) · The Garden of Eden (1986)

Short stories	"Big Two-Hearted River" (1924) · "Soldier's Home" (1925) · "Cat in the Rain" (1925) · "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926) · "A Canary for One" (1926) · "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927) · "The Killers" (1927) · "The Undefeated" (1927) · "A Day's Wait" (1933) · "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936) · "The Capital of the World" (1936) · "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936) · "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (?) · "Adventures of a Young Man" (?)

Short story collections	Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) · In Our Time (1925) · Men Without Women (1927) · Winner Take Nothing (1933) · The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936) · The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) · The Essential Hemingway (1947) · The Hemingway Reader (1953) · The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969) · The Nick Adams Stories (1972) · The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987) · The Collected Stories (1995)

Plays	A Short Happy Life (1961) · The Hemingway Hero (1967)

Poetry	88 Poems (1979)

Non-fiction	Death in the Afternoon (1932) · Green Hills of Africa (1935) · Hemingway, The Wild Years (1962) · A Moveable Feast (1964) · By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) · Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter (1970) · Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) · The Dangerous Summer (1985) · Dateline: Toronto (1985) · True at First Light (1999 memoir) · Under Kilimanjaro (2005) · On Paris (On) (2008)

Film adaptations	A Farewell to Arms (1932) · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) · To Have and Have Not (1944) · The Killers (1946) · The Macomber Affair (1947) · The Breaking Point (1950) · The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) · The Killers (1956) · The Sun Also Rises (1957) · A Farewell to Arms (1957) · The Old Man and the Sea (1958) · Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) · The Killers (1964) · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965) · Islands in the Stream (1977) · The Sun Also Rises (1984) · In Love and War (1996) · The Old Man and the Sea (1999)

TV adaptations	The Old Man and the Sea (1990)

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