A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: â€œFascinatingâ€¦serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an authorâ€™s processâ€ (The New York Times).

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 battlefieldâ€”weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertionâ€”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 Hemingwayâ€™s craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring Hemingwayâ€™s own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel, a personal foreword by the authorâ€™s son Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the authorâ€™s grandson SeÃ¡n Hemingway, this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration.
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations, figures
ReleaseDate 2014-07-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476764528

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations, figures
ReleaseDate	2014-07-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476764528

A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

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