A Farewell to Arms
  • Published: 15 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099273974
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
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A Farewell to Arms

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Paperback
15 Sep 2022
Paperback
1 Jul 2025
Paperback
9 May 1997
Hardback
1 Jul 2025
Hardback
28 May 1993
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Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written

Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical story of war.

'I don't live at all when I'm not with you'
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway's unforgettable war novel.

Recreating the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer, and the men and women he meets in Italy, this is a story of war told with simplicity and immediacy. It is also a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.

'A novel of great power' Times Literary Supplement

'In these troubled times Hemingway's clarity, spirituality and sense of hard reality in the midst of confusion is very helpful' Sunday Telegraph
  • Published: 15 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099273974
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

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Praise for A Farewell to Arms

Flawless... such mastery of narrative, imagery and feeling, the prerequisites for great prose

Edna O'Brien, Guardian

It seems such simple and straightforward language, but it isn't. The first chapter of A Farewell to Arms is only two and a bit pages but there is almost every variety of sentence structure. It is incredibly artful writing, and part of the art is disguising that it is artful

John Harvey, Guardian

There is something so complete in Mr. Hemingway's achievement in A Farewell to Arms that one is left speculating as to whether another novel will follow in this manner, and whether it does not complete both a period and a phase...crisply natural and convincing

Guardian, 1929

A novel of great power

Times Literary Supplement

Essential Hemingway...a gripping account of the life of an American volunteer in the Italian army and a poignant love story

Daily Express

Flawless... such mastery of narrative, imagery and feeling, the prerequisites for great prose

Edna O'Brien, Guardian

It seems such simple and straightforward language, but it isn't. The first chapter of A Farewell to Arms is only two and a bit pages but there is almost every variety of sentence structure. It is incredibly artful writing, and part of the art is disguising that it is artful

John Harvey, Guardian

There is something so complete in Mr. Hemingway's achievement in A Farewell to Arms that one is left speculating as to whether another novel will follow in this manner, and whether it does not complete both a period and a phase...crisply natural and convincing

Guardian, 1929

A novel of great power

Times Literary Supplement

Essential Hemingway...a gripping account of the life of an American volunteer in the Italian army and a poignant love story

Daily Express
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