- Cuentos de guerra, World War I, 1914-1918, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction
A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."
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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 332
- Publisher
- Bibliotech Press, Rowohlt, Independently Published
- Editions
- 181
- Language
- bul, Dutch, Portuguese, tib
- ISBN
- 9780224602709
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“In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.”
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction. Since his death three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works have been published. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he worked as a reporter but within months he left for the Italian front to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He was seriously injured and returned home within the year. He married his first wife Hadley Richardson in 1922 and moved to Paris, where
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