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. 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. 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.
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