Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield–weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; … Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion–this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings together for the first time, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway’s craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring Hemingway’s own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel, a personal foreword by the author’s son Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the author’s grandson Sean Hemingway, this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration.
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This book is by far one of Hemingway’s best novels to date. The way Hemingway narrated the journey of the main characters is one of the most descriptive stories I have read. The imagery in the novel is imperative to the novel as a whole, and allows the reader to feel as though they are actually in the novel with the characters.
It’s Hemingway. A good one.
American ambulance driver Lt. Henry falls for English nurse Barkley on the Italian front during WW1, in a story told, by legend, at least in part based on Hemingway’s own experiences. Hemingway’s short, declarative dialogue draws me in as quickly as any snappy, to the point, newspaper story. First-person dialogue shows us the evolution of Lt. …
An honest explaining of emotions.
a classic of American literature
Hemingway’s economical prose reaches a crescendo that left me breathless.
I read this book for my literature class. For our first semester exams we had to read a canyon worthy novel, which is basically a novel that is essential to American literature. So, what better author to read from then Ernest Hemingway? And afterall A Farewell to Arms is one of his best, or so I read. It follows Henry, an American who is fighting …
All time classic and favorite.