A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

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Presented by Patrick and Seán Hemingway this augmented edition of Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime features early drafts and for the first time all of the author’s alternate endings. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as 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. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield—weary demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings together for the first time along with early drafts of other essential passages offering new insight into Hemingway’s craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring Hemingway’s own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel a personal foreword by the author’s son Patrick Hemingway and a new introduction by the author’s grandson Seán Hemingway this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration.

Series: Hemingway Library Edition

Hardcover: 352 pages

Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (July 10 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1451658168

ISBN-13: 978-1451658163

Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

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