A Farewell To Arms
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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Set against the brutal, mud-soaked backdrop of the Italian front during the First World War, A Farewell to Arms chronicles the ill-fated love affair between Frederic Henry, an American ambulance officer serving in the Italian army, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, as they attempt to escape the indiscriminate carnage of war and forge a private world of their own. Hemingway presents their romance not as a triumphant escape but as a tender, desperate act of survival — two souls clinging to each other against a world bent on destruction. The novel captures the disillusionment of an entire generation, rendering the chaos of retreat and the quiet agony of loss with an unflinching, reportorial gaze. Widely regarded as one of the towering achievements of 20th-century American literature, A Farewell to Arms established Hemingway's signature prose style — spare, declarative, and devastatingly precise — as a literary force that would reshape modern fiction. Beneath its deceptively simple sentences lies a profound meditation on duty, sacrifice, love, and the cruel indifference of fate. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Hemingway argues through this novel that heroism is not found on the battlefield, but in the quiet courage of those who love in the shadow of inevitable loss — a truth that haunts the reader long after the final page is turned.
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Format: Paperback
Published: 1954, Penguin Books
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the brutal, mud-soaked backdrop of the Italian front during the First World War, A Farewell to Arms chronicles the ill-fated love affair between Frederic Henry, an American ambulance officer serving in the Italian army, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, as they attempt to escape the indiscriminate carnage of war and forge a private world of their own. Hemingway presents their romance not as a triumphant escape but as a tender, desperate act of survival — two souls clinging to each other against a world bent on destruction. The novel captures the disillusionment of an entire generation, rendering the chaos of retreat and the quiet agony of loss with an unflinching, reportorial gaze. Widely regarded as one of the towering achievements of 20th-century American literature, A Farewell to Arms established Hemingway's signature prose style — spare, declarative, and devastatingly precise — as a literary force that would reshape modern fiction. Beneath its deceptively simple sentences lies a profound meditation on duty, sacrifice, love, and the cruel indifference of fate. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Hemingway argues through this novel that heroism is not found on the battlefield, but in the quiet courage of those who love in the shadow of inevitable loss — a truth that haunts the reader long after the final page is turned.