The Ernest Hemingway classic, the novel that established him as one of the 20th century’s most important literary talents, in the form that he intended, uncensored and unabridged. A Farewell to Arms tells the story of a young American, Frederic Henry, who volunteers for the Italian ambulance service during the Great War, and falls in love with a British nurse, Catherine Barkley. This intense tale, drawing from some of the author’s own experiences as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, recalls the suffering and anguish of war, and remains one of the great wartime love stories.
N.B.: As this edition is uncensored and unabridged, the author’s original strong language is used, including one racist word.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Cicero, Illinois, in 1899. After graduating from high school, he went to work for the Star newspaper in Kansas City as a reporter. In World War I, he served as an American Red Cross ambulance driver and was severely wounded in 1918 on the Austro–Italian front. Hospitalized in Milano, he fell in love with a Red Cross nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, who eventually declined his marriage proposal. In 1921, he moved to France as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. In Paris, he mixed with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound, who encouraged him to publish his non-journalistic work. A number of books were released before his seminal A Farewell to Arms in 1929. He continued his writing as well as his journalism in the ensuing years. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) was set during the Spanish Civil War, and some regard this as his finest novel, surpassing A Farewell to Arms. He won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961.
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ISBN 978-0-473-73715-3
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