A Farewell to Arms

Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and praised 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. Facing the horrors looming on the battlefield: tired and demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; The profound struggle between loyalty and desertion: this gripping semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers trapped in its inexorable advance.

"Ernest Hemingway said he rewrote the ending of A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition brings together all the alternative endings for the first time, along with first drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway's art and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. Featuring Hemingway's own introduction in 1948 to an illustrated reissue of the novel, With a Personal Foreword by son of the author, Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the author's grandson, Sean Hemingway, this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration."--Amazon.com.

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War stories, World War I, 1914-1918, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, Campaigns, open_syllabus_project, American fiction, World War I, 1914-1918, Fiction, 1914-1918 World War, World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746, materials in German, American War stories, American fiction (fictional works by an author), World War I, 1914-1918, fiction, Fiction, war and military, Fiction, romance, historical, War stories, fiction, Man-woman relations, fiction, Spain, fiction, American literature, Actors, National Theater (New York, N.Y.: Houston Street and 2nd Avenue), Autographs, Biography, Theater, Military deserters, War, American writers, 1900-1945 - Texts, Français (langue), Lectures et morceaux choisis, Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918, Romans, nouvelles, Déserteurs, World war (1914-1918), World war, 1914-1918--fiction, Roman, Amerikanisches englisch, Ps3515.e37 f3 2012, 813/.52, Fiction in English, World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918, fiction, Large Print BooksPeople

Nurse Catherine Barkley, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, John C. Schweitzer, Laurence Stallings (1894-1968), Najaf Daryābandarī (1929-)Places

Italy, The Battle of Caporetto, New York (State), New YorkTimes

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-328).

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A Farewell to Arms is about a love story between American expatriate Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of World War I, cynical soldiers, combat, and population displacement. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, it became his first bestseller and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel of that World War I debacle."