A Farewell to Arms
1929 • 352 pages
Ratings119
Average rating3.7
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Ratings119
Average rating3.7
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.
Reviews with the most likes.
After reading “To Have and Have Not” I was kind of done with Hemingway. Thus when a friend of mine suggested this book I was hesitant to say the least.
What a pleasant surprise I found waiting in the book for me. A story of war, a story of romance. And little of the selfish one can find in the above mentioned.
This book takes you to the depths of the Great War. Hemingway semi-autobiographically has made a first person character who is an ambulance driver at the Italian war front.
The Great War always baffles me, as it seems no-one was really keen on fighting and no-one knew exactly what was going in. This book exemplifies this perfectly.
The subtle and the featherweight sentences of Hemingway convey more power than other hefty and lengthy sentences by other greats in literature. A good book, a beautiful story.
Le premier roman d'Hemingway que j'avais lu m'avait déçu, celui-ci m'a semblé justifier la réputation de grand de la littérature américaine de son auteur. L'horreur et l'absurdité de la guerre sont parfaitement décrites dans ce roman.
Very bored to start with but picked up about 60% through. The end really got me! Beautiful and sad.
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