A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
by Ernest Hemingway; Sean Hemingway (intro); Patrick Hemingway (foreword)
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- Paperback
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- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1476764522
- ISBN 13
- 9781476764528
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New York: Scribner, July 2014. Trade Paperback. Good+. Unmarked. Reading wear. Creasing to covers. Not from a library. xix + 330 pages.
The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings. 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, semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway 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.
Synopsis
Set during World War 1, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and his love affair with an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. The novel is semi-autobiographical, based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the war. While some assume the title of the work to be taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele, others believe it to be a simple pun of the word “arms.” A Farewell to Arms was first serialized in the May-October issues Scribner's Magazine 1929. It was published in book form in September of that year. As the work became available to the public just over ten years after the November 1918 armistice, Hemingway assumed his audience would recognize many of the references. In fact, certain basic information isn't alluded to in the book at all, as it was common knowledge around the time of publication. The result of this immediacy? Arguably one of the best novels written about World War I… ever. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's first bestseller, affording him financial independence and cementing his stature as a modern American writer. More specifically, the novel and its content helped to established the author as a key member of the “Lost Generation,” a subset of Modernist artists namely defined by their post-war disillusionment. A Farewell to Arms is ranked 74th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
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- Books of the World (US)
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- Title
- A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway; Sean Hemingway (intro); Patrick Hemingway (foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- The Hemingway Library Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1476764522
- ISBN 13
- 9781476764528
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Pages
- xix + 352
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- fiction, literature, war stories, love stories, Great War
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- Fiction;
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