A FAREWELL TO ARMS

Hemingway, Ernest

ISBN 10: 0684801469 / ISBN 13: 9780684801469

Published by Scribner - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 2003

About this Item

Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Cathie Bleck. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 235281

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A FAREWELL TO ARMS
• Publisher: Scribner - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684801469
• ISBN 13: 9780684801469
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Cathie Bleck
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime.

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, this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.

Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. A classic novel of love during wartime, “A Farewell to Arms stands, more than eighty years after its first appearance, as a towering ornament of American literature” (The Washington Times).

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.