| A Farewell to Arms Contributor(s): Hemingway, Ernest (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684801469 ISBN-13: 9780684801469 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1995 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front. |
| Additional Information |
| Library of Congress Subjects: - 01 - 04 |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 77020609 |
| Lexile Measure: 730 |
| Series: 05 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.34" W x 7.96" (0.61 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ernest Hemingway's classic novel of love during wartime. 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, this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. A classic novel of love during wartime, "A Farewell to Arms stands, more than eighty years after its first appearance, as a towering ornament of American literature" (The Washington Times). |
Contributor Bio(s): Hemingway, Ernest: - Ernest Hemingway did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of the greatest literary lights of the 20th century. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He died in 1961. |