A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway - 1995

1995. Soft cover. Ernest Hemingway. Classic Near Fine No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is a hardback edition. Ex-owner's (a high school) stamp on front and rear end paper. The book does not look like or feel like it was ever read. About the book: 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. 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. Hemingways frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporettoof lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralizedis one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was thirty years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.