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A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

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Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. First Edition of This Edition. Russet Quarter leather, cloth with gold titles, embellishments. Three raised bands. Illustrated. Ribbon bookmark ,Marbled endpapers 307pp..Private Bookplate reads "The Heirloom Library , privately printed and bound for The Heirloom Library of Wendy P. Bispham". Could be removed (safely) with label lifter. Gilt fore edges. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK ONLY). Please email for further details or pictures.. Not Inscribed or Signed. Quarter Leather Russet Boards. Near Fine (NEAR NEW)/No Jacket. Illus. by Bernard Fuchs . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK.

Synopsis

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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It has a good plot, but its boring.

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Title
A Farewell to Arms
Author
Ernest Hemingway
Illustrator
Bernard Fuchs
Book Condition
New Near Fine (NEAR NEW)
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
The Franklin Library
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
1979
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Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"

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