A farewell to arms

330 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-4767-6452-8
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OCLC Number:
862348514

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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; 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 …

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Subjects

  • World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • War stories
  • Man-woman relationship
  • Fiction