Hemingway looks at war in A Farewell to Arms and sees it as a singular example of wretchedness and evil in the world. As for the remaining details of the story, who knows how many of them relate to the actual events in the author’s life? But the broad strokes are there, giving the narrative a veracity, a relationship to life, a profundity that can come about only through personal experience. Like his protagonist, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, Hemingway was an American soldier who served as an ambulance driver with the Italian military during World War I he too was wounded in battle, landed in a military hospital in Milan, and met the woman with whom he would begin a loving and exclusive relationship during his convalescence. This might have something to do with the close resemblances between the book and the author’s life. |1 .Ernest Hemingway’s 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms is widely considered to be one of his finest works. |a Scribner library (Series) |0 |v SL61. |a A farewell to arms / |c by Ernest Hemingway.

A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto - of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized - is one of the greatest moments in literary history. The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front.

By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power.

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