A Farewell To Arms
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms stands as one of the most celebrated anti-war novels of the twentieth century, drawing directly from the author's own experiences as an ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War One. The novel chronicles the turbulent love affair between Frederic Henry, an American lieutenant serving in the Italian army, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, set against the brutal backdrop of the war's carnage and chaos. Written in Hemingway's signature spare, iceberg-style prose, the narrative strips emotion to its bare bones, allowing the weight of loss and longing to resonate with devastating power. As the war intensifies and the couple attempts to flee to safety in Switzerland, the story builds to a conclusion of heartbreaking inevitability. A landmark of American modernist literature, A Farewell to Arms remains a profound meditation on love, duty, courage, and the senseless destruction wrought by war.
Author: Hemingway
Format: Paperback
Published: 1968, Penguin Books
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms stands as one of the most celebrated anti-war novels of the twentieth century, drawing directly from the author's own experiences as an ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War One. The novel chronicles the turbulent love affair between Frederic Henry, an American lieutenant serving in the Italian army, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, set against the brutal backdrop of the war's carnage and chaos. Written in Hemingway's signature spare, iceberg-style prose, the narrative strips emotion to its bare bones, allowing the weight of loss and longing to resonate with devastating power. As the war intensifies and the couple attempts to flee to safety in Switzerland, the story builds to a conclusion of heartbreaking inevitability. A landmark of American modernist literature, A Farewell to Arms remains a profound meditation on love, duty, courage, and the senseless destruction wrought by war.