Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefieldweary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto the profound struggle between loyalty and desertionthis gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. 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. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. $1,500.00 Item Number: 132544įirst English edition of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters, with the first issue point of “seriosu” on page 66, line 28.
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