A Farewell to Arms Paperback - 1995
by Ernest Hemingway
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.
About this book
Set during World War 1, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and his love affair with an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. The novel is semi-autobiographical, based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the war. While some assume the title of the work to be taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele, others believe it to be a simple pun of the word “arms.”
A Farewell to Arms was first serialized in the May-October issues Scribner's Magazine 1929. It was published in book form in September of that year. As the work became available to the public just over ten years after the November 1918 armistice, Hemingway assumed his audience would recognize many of the references. In fact, certain basic information isn't alluded to in the book at all, as it was common knowledge around the time of publication.
The result of this immediacy? Arguably one of the best novels written about World War I… ever. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's first bestseller, affording him financial independence and cementing his stature as a modern American writer. More specifically, the novel and its content helped to established the author as a key member of the “Lost Generation,” a subset of Modernist artists namely defined by their post-war disillusionment. A Farewell to Arms is ranked 74th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
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First Edition Identification
Scribner’s first published A Farewell to Arms in New York in September 1929 in a print run of about 31,000 copies. The 355-page first editions have no additional printings listed on the copyright page. Of the initial print run, 510 copies were numbered and signed by Hemmingway. These “Lost Generation” gems have sold for upwards of $20,000.
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- Title A Farewell to Arms
- Author Ernest Hemingway
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-06-01
- ISBN 9780684801469 / 0684801469
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.34 x 0.72 in (20.22 x 13.56 x 1.83 cm)
- Reading level 730
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Catalog Heading: Classics
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
- Topical: Home School
- Library of Congress subjects War stories, World War, 1914-1918 - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 77020609
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 03/02/2012, Page 76
- Library Journal, 05/01/1995, Page 138
- People Weekly, 02/16/2009, Page 54
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