A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

Hemingway, Ernest, and Hemingway, Patrick (Foreword by), and Hemingway, Sean (Introduction by);

ISBN 10: 1476764522 / ISBN 13: 9781476764528

Published by Scribner, 2014

About this Item

A fine copy in pictorial wraps. Later printing. Covers have some minor general wear. A nice tight copy with no names or inscriptions. Illustrated. 8vo; ~ 360 pages.

Seller Inventory # 32727

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1476764522
• ISBN 13: 9781476764528
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • FICTION
  • HISTORICAL FICTION
  • LITERATURE

About this title

Synopsis

The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times).

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 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring Hemingway’s own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel, a personal foreword by the author’s son Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the author’s grandson Seán Hemingway, this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration.

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.