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A Farewell to Arms
  • Published: 9 May 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099910107
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
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A Farewell to Arms

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15 Sept 2022
Paperback
9 May 1997
Hardback
28 May 1993
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One of the greatest war novels ever witten by one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists.

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came his early masterpiece, A Farewell to Arms.

In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and brutal honesty. A love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion, A Farewell to Arms offers a unique and unflinching view of the world and people, by the winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • Published: 9 May 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099910107
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Ernest Hemingway

ERNEST HEMINGWAY was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, the child of a physician and a musician. After high school, he became a journalist with The Kansas City Star, before enlisting to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He returned home after a serious injury in 1918, but his military experience informed his fiction, especially A Farewell to Arms. He worked as a war correspondent for The Toronto Star during his first marriage, and over the next three marriages he would live in Paris, London, Key West, and Cuba. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two nonfiction titles. On safari in Africa in 1952 he survived two plane crashes, though his obituaries ran prematurely. He lived on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Two trunks of his early work from Paris reappeared in 1957, and inspired him to write his memoir A Moveable Feast. He eventually committed suicide in Idaho in 1961.
portrait photo of Ernest Hemingway

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Praise for A Farewell to Arms

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

There is something so complete in Mr. Hemingway's achievement in A Farewell to Arms that one is left speculating as to whether another novel will follow in this manner, and whether it does not complete both a period and a phase...crisply natural and convincing

Guardian, 1929

A novel of great power

Times Literary Supplement

Essential Hemingway...a gripping account of the life of an American volunteer in the Italian army and a poignant love story

Daily Express

A most beautiful, moving and humane book

Vita Sackville-West

A novel of great power.

TLS

Hard, almost metallic, glittering, blinding by the reflections of its hard surface, utterly free of sentimentality- a strange and original book, it will convince you of its honesty and veracity

Arnold Bennett