A Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway tells the story of Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army during World War I. While stationed in Italy, Frederic begins a relationship with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse grieving the loss of her former fiancé. Their love deepens after Frederic is wounded and sent to Milan to recover, where their relationship becomes more serious and intimate. As the war grows increasingly chaotic and meaningless, Frederic deserts the army during a disastrous retreat, rejecting the violence and empty rhetoric surrounding the conflict. He and Catherine flee to neutral Switzerland, hoping to live a quiet, peaceful life together. Their brief happiness is destroyed when Catherine dies from complications after giving birth to a stillborn child. Left alone, Frederic confronts profound grief and disillusionment. The novel explores themes of love, loss, fate, and the futility of trying to escape suffering in an indifferent world.
A Farewell To Arms was first published in 1929 and ensured Hemingway’s place as a modern American writer of considerable stature. The book became his first best-seller and has been called “the premier American war novel from World War I.”
Quote from the book—
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
—Ernest Hemingway, A Farewwell To Arms
Immerse yourself in the timeless romance and drama of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. This paperback edition features a striking cover art depicting a solitary man striding down a rain-soaked, dimly lit street, evoking the novel's powerful atmosphere. Ideal for collectors and casual readers alike. Add this classic literary masterpiece to your collection and experience Hemingway's enduring legacy.
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an iconic American novelist, journalist, and short-story writer. Known for an economical, understated style he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Hemingway is most famous direct prose and adventurous life as a war correspondent and expatriate in Paris, influencing 20th-century literature with classics like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea, for which he won the Pulitzer (1953) and Nobel Prize (1954). On July 2, 1961, following years of severe depression, alcoholism, and physical ailments from injuries, Hemingway died by suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
