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17%OFFErnest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms - 9780099910107 - V9780099910107
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A Farewell to Arms

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Description for A Farewell to Arms Paperback. A young American volunteers for the Italian ambulance service in World War I. Working near the front, he meets and falls in love with a British nurse. Disillusioned by the war, he makes the decision to desert, taking his new love to Switzerland. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 20. Weight in Grams: 160.

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came his early masterpiece, A Farewell to Arms.

In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and brutal honesty. A love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion, A Farewell to Arms offers a unique and unflinching view of the world and people, by the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099910107
SKU
V9780099910107
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About Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield – this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war – in 1922. Resigning from ... Read more

Reviews for A Farewell to Arms
Flawless... such mastery of narrative, imagery and feeling, the prerequisites for great prose
Guardian
It seems such simple and straightforward language, but it isn't. The first chapter of A Farewell to Arms is only two and a bit pages but there is almost every variety of sentence structure. It is incredibly artful writing, and part of the art ... Read more

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