An edition of A Farewell to Arms (1929)

A farewell to arms

The Hemingway library edition, First Scribner trade paperback edition July 2014.
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An edition of A Farewell to Arms (1929)

A farewell to arms

The Hemingway library edition, First Scribner trade paperback edition July 2014.
  • 3.7 (53 ratings) ·
  • 425 Want to read
  • 28 Currently reading
  • 71 Have read

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

"Ernest Hemingway famously 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. Featuring Hemingway's own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel, a personal foreword by the author's son Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the author's grandson Sean Hemingway, this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration."--Amazon.com.

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Scribner
Language
English
Pages
330

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Table of Contents

The author's 1948 introduction
Foreword / Patrick Hemingway
Introduction / Séan Hemingway
The novel
Appendixes. Early drafts ; The alternative endings ; List of titles
Acknowledgments
Notes to the introduction.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-328).

This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license. The University of Florida Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.

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Copyright Date
1929

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3515.E37 F3 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 330 pages
Number of pages
330

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27791278M
ISBN 10
1476764522
ISBN 13
9781476764528
OCLC/WorldCat
862348514

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL63072W

Work Description

A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."

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