Farewell to Arms

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• A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway

  Ernest Hemingway said, My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. And that best and simplest way, that tough, terse, two-fisted prose, had a profound and lasting influence on American writing. Hemingway wo ... (read full critics)

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  Going to war with Ernest Hemingway is less traumatic than going on vacation with Thomas Mann

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  Leah said on Apr 2, 2011 | 2 feedbacks

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  It looks bad to give three stars to Ernest Hemingway's first novel, which established him as a great author and as the voice of the 'lost generation'. However, the character of Catherine Barkley is simply not believable inasmuch as she is just the perfect embodiment of a male fantasy :subservient, b ... (continue)

  It looks bad to give three stars to Ernest Hemingway's first novel, which established him as a great author and as the voice of the 'lost generation'. However, the character of Catherine Barkley is simply not believable inasmuch as she is just the perfect embodiment of a male fantasy :subservient, brave, adoring and lacking a personality of her own. It may be because the novel is recounted from the perspective of the male protagonist, and yet it bothered me while reading it.

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  MarieAntoinette said on Jul 8, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  "I'm not afraid. I just hate it."

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  Giacomo said on Jan 9, 2011 | Add your feedback

• The story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivalled in modern literature, while ... (continue)

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

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  Brian Gilberthorpe said on Jul 18, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling.

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  odettetoulemonde said on Jan 4, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  I believe this is Hemingway's first novel. He turned his experiences as a wounded solider in northern Italy during WW1 and his love for one of nurses in the hospital into a remarkable book. I enjoyed it.

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  Cinzia said on Oct 23, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• Paperback 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 014000002X
• ISBN-13: 9780140000023
• Publisher: Penguin
• Pub date: Apr 30, 1970
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