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A Farewell To Arms

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A Farewell To Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

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Jonathan Cape: Florin Book, 1932. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1932 Florin Book edition by Jonathan Cape. Dust jacket is wrapped- jacket has rubbed corners and several closed tears along the edges. Cloth boards have minor wear. Good binding- lays open to pages 32/33. Faint pencil scribble along the page fore-edge, no other marks or notations. Dust jacket price not clipped. Bit cocked.

Synopsis

Set during World War 1, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and his love affair with an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. The novel is semi-autobiographical, based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the war. While some assume the title of the work to be taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele, others believe it to be a simple pun of the word “arms.” A Farewell to Arms was first serialized in the May-October issues Scribner's Magazine 1929. It was published in book form in September of that year. As the work became available to the public just over ten years after the November 1918 armistice, Hemingway assumed his audience would recognize many of the references. In fact, certain basic information isn't alluded to in the book at all, as it was common knowledge around the time of publication. The result of this immediacy? Arguably one of the best novels written about World War I… ever. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's first bestseller, affording him financial independence and cementing his stature as a modern American writer. More specifically, the novel and its content helped to established the author as a key member of the “Lost Generation,” a subset of Modernist artists namely defined by their post-war disillusionment. A Farewell to Arms is ranked 74th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. 

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Title
A Farewell To Arms
Author
Ernest Hemingway
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Jonathan Cape: Florin Book
Date Published
1932
Weight
2.06 lbs

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Cocked
Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
Cloth
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Edges
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