Farewell to Arms - Softcover

Hemingway, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684717972 ISBN 13: 9780684717975

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1929

Synopsis

A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by 16th-century English dramatist George Peele. A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I.

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Review:

"A most beautiful, moving and human book" (Vita Sackville-West)

"A novel of great power" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Flawless... such mastery of narrative, imagery and feeling, the prerequisites for great prose" (Edna O'Brien Guardian)

"It seems such simple and straightforward language, but it isn't. The first chapter of A Farewell to Arms is only two and a bit pages but there is almost every variety of sentence structure. It is incredibly artful writing, and part of the art is disguising that it is artful." (John Harvey Guardian)

"Essential Hemingway...a gripping account of the life of an American volunteer in the Italian army and a poignant love story." (Daily Express)

Book Description:

A beautiful hardback gift edition offering new insight into Hemingway’s craft and celebrating one of the greatest war novels ever written.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1929
• ISBN 10: 0684717972
• ISBN 13: 9780684717975
• Binding: Paperback