EAN: 9780143138839

HEMINGWAY ERNEST A FAREWELL TO ARMS (PENGUIN CL...

Hemingway’s beloved novel of doomed love during wartime  now available for the first time from
Penguin Classics  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 Classics Deluxe Edition  with flaps and deckle-edged
paper    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.

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