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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I read it, but I really didn't enjoy it. An American officer in the Italian Army ambulance corps in WWI. He meets a British nurse, falls in love (maybe?), gets wounded, the Italians get their butts kicked in the war and bad things happen. His relationship with the nurse is the very worst of early 20th century male-female dynamics. Really not a good book. ( ) I loved the dialogue style! It's almost ironic, in the true literary sense. I also appreciated the divisions into five books, one for each stage of the story, which also matched geographical changes in setting. They also seem to match Shakespearean Act divisions and a typical plot line (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution). Of course, it's more [book:Hamlet] than [book:Midsummer Night's Dream]. No surprise that Hemingway died by suicide. This is not a Little Miss Sunshine conclusion. Also a good book to read with adult ESL students -- the diction and syntax is clear, and the story is not YA (as many classic lit novels studied in school are). Just have to watch out for the implied dialogue and movement, which could be missed by students newer to the language. Much better than I expected, that's for sure! The simple but profound writing in A Farewell to Arms is what makes Hemingway such a master. The main character, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, is an American serving as an ambulance driver for the Italian Red Cross in World War I. Hemingway demonstrates both the horrors of war and the ordinariness of life during the war. There is also a love story running parallel to the war story. Although Hemingway wants each reader to take something different, and he doesn’t expound upon emotions and messages, the story has many themes. In addition to love, there’s a study of loyalty, patriotism, and desertion. The characters exemplify courage and fear, and pain. Loneliness, heavy drinking, and escapism, both literally and figuratively, are elements in the narrative. The reader learns more about a man when the main character gives up on war and says farewell to arms. Hope, confusion, and agony play into the end of the story, and realizing that we must die is paramount to understanding the novel. This e-book edition of the Hemmingway novel should be avoided. All words contain double Ls, are printed with only one L. Although the book is readable this way, this is an annoying distraction. The novel itself proved disappointing with no character that was particularly interesting and with dialog between Catherine and Henry often being cloying. Furthermore, the descriptions of WW I on the Italian-Slovenian front were not impressive.
Classic war novel still speaks to today's readers. Essential Hemingway...a gripping account of the life of an American volunteer in the Italian army and a poignant love story. It seems such simple and straightforward language, but it isn't. The first chapter of A Farewell to Arms is only two and a bit pages but there is almost every variety of sentence structure. It is incredibly artful writing, and part of the art is disguising that it is artful. Flawless... such mastery of narrative, imagery and feeling, the prerequisites for great prose A novel of great power Belongs to Publisher SeriesClub Bruguera (6) — 21 more Florin Books (30) Gallimard, Folio (27) Keltainen kirjasto (83) Penguin Books (2) rororo (216) The Scribner Library (SL 61) A tot vent (175) Zephyr Books (1) Is contained inFive Novels: The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / To Have and Have Not / The Old Man and the Sea / For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms / For Whom The Bell Tolls / The Old Man and the Sea / The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (indirect) The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Book-of-the-Month-Club Set of 6: A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast / For Whom the Bell Tolls / A Farewell to Arms / The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms / For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Sun Also Rises / Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway - Four Novels - Complete and Unabridged: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Hemmingway - The Sun Also Rises, a Farewell to Arms, to Have and Have Not, for Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Narrativa completa 2 Aguas primaverales / Fiesta / Adios a las armas / tener y no tener by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Set (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, To Have and Have Not, For Whom the Bell Tolls) by Ernest Hemingway ContainsHas the adaptationHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a studyHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guide
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HTML: 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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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