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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Hardcover Cloth 314 pages. Condition Good NO Dust Jacket. Later printing 1957. Nice dark blue cloth boards with blue stripe and black spine. Silver and gold embossing and a replica Hemmingway signature on the cover shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Back cover of the book dented and scraped on the fore edge leaving the book bowed. Overall a beautiful reading copy. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
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 - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on 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 his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.
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 - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on 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 his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.
Synopsis
Set during World War 1, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and his love affair with an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. The novel is semi-autobiographical, based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the war. While some assume the title of the work to be taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele, others believe it to be a simple pun of the word “arms.” A Farewell to Arms was first serialized in the May-October issues Scribner's Magazine 1929. It was published in book form in September of that year. As the work became available to the public just over ten years after the November 1918 armistice, Hemingway assumed his audience would recognize many of the references. In fact, certain basic information isn't alluded to in the book at all, as it was common knowledge around the time of publication. The result of this immediacy? Arguably one of the best novels written about World War I… ever. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's first bestseller, affording him financial independence and cementing his stature as a modern American writer. More specifically, the novel and its content helped to established the author as a key member of the “Lost Generation,” a subset of Modernist artists namely defined by their post-war disillusionment. A Farewell to Arms is ranked 74th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
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On Dec 18 2015, a reader said:
It has a good plot, but its boring.
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Details
- Seller
- River House Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 656504
- Title
- A Farewell to Arms
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 314
- Size
- octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel;
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