A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

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Vintage
15 September 2022

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written

Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical story of war.

'I don't live at all when I'm not with you'

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway's unforgettable war novel.

Recreating the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer, and the men and women he meets in Italy, this is a story of war told with simplicity and immediacy. It is also a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.

'A novel of great power' Times Literary Supplement

'In these troubled times Hemingway's clarity, spirituality and sense of hard reality in the midst of confusion is very helpful' Sunday Telegraph

By: Ernest Hemingway
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 214g
ISBN: 9780099273974
ISBN 10: 0099273977
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

Reviews for A Farewell to Arms

Hemingway's classic novel of World War I draws on his own experiences as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front. American Frederick Henry is a dutiful soldier until an unexpected series of events changes his life. The hard surface of the prose conceals unexpected depths of emotion. (Kirkus UK)