EAN: 9780143138822

HEMINGWAY ERNEST A FAREWELL TO ARMS

A collectible hardcover edition of Hemingway’s beloved novel of doomed love during wartime 
with a new foreword by Abraham Verghese  the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The
Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone   One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the
Past 100 Years  A Penguin Vitae Edition    A Farewell to Arms is one of Ernest Hemingway’s most
popular books  a masterpiece that is not only among the greatest novels to come out of World
War I but also one of the most profoundly moving in the American canon. Based on Hemingway’s
own experience volunteering with the Red Cross in Italy during World War I  and written when he
was only thirty  it tells the story of Frederic Henry  an American ambulance driver  and
Catherine Barkley  an English nurse. For Frederic  Catherine’s kindness and beauty shore him up
against the carnage of battle  for Catherine  Frederic’s strength and devotion are a lifeboat
in the sea of grief over her first love. Through injury  surgery  and the psychic fallout of
war  they maintain an overwhelming desire to be together  even as forces conspire to keep them
apart. Hemingway captures the intensity of both love and war with the taut immediacy and spare
understated eloquence that are his hallmarks  reminding us why this novel—his first
bestseller—endures as a favorite  and why the Nobel laureate ranks among our most treasured
writers.  Penguin Vitae—loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life"—is a deluxe hardcover
series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and
nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with
beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives  and welcomes new
readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration  intellectual engagement  and
creative originality.

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