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Farewell to Arms
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/missing
- Seller
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pdx, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
In my family since 1929. Previous owners name and date in ink top recto endpaper.. Dust jacket is missing with misspelling. Other points are shown in photographs. Text unmarked. Pages age toned. Farewell to Arms has been called the best book on the First World War in Italy. The collapse of the Italian army,in vividly described actual historic actions in Hemingway's prose. . All of which led to the support for fascism in post war Italy. through the inability of capitalist/monarchist political parties to provide effective leadership ,
the book has been read many times. The title on the front cover is in gold gilt, with the lettering in black, both the title and author name. The label is faded. On the spine, the is the name of the author, publisher and title but faded. Scratches on front cover, Top of spine is worn.. Bottom right corner is worn, top right shows wear . Bottom rear corner is missing some color. Two small dents on top front and rear covers. Pages are dappled. top page edges dirty.,Bottom of spine shows a little wear.Some numbers stamped rear verso end paper.`
Included in the book, is a undated newspaper clipping from the 1980's? on the impact of Hemingway, which..has led to many saddened readers, Catherine Barkley, you see has just breathed her last and Lieutenant Henry has gone for a walk in the rain".
Along with this tribute to Hemingway, I will include two reminisces of members of International Brigades, one with personal details of Hemingway, and two recollections of Hemingway as neighbor in Idaho by my former employees.
Please see the photos.
the book has been read many times. The title on the front cover is in gold gilt, with the lettering in black, both the title and author name. The label is faded. On the spine, the is the name of the author, publisher and title but faded. Scratches on front cover, Top of spine is worn.. Bottom right corner is worn, top right shows wear . Bottom rear corner is missing some color. Two small dents on top front and rear covers. Pages are dappled. top page edges dirty.,Bottom of spine shows a little wear.Some numbers stamped rear verso end paper.`
Included in the book, is a undated newspaper clipping from the 1980's? on the impact of Hemingway, which..has led to many saddened readers, Catherine Barkley, you see has just breathed her last and Lieutenant Henry has gone for a walk in the rain".
Along with this tribute to Hemingway, I will include two reminisces of members of International Brigades, one with personal details of Hemingway, and two recollections of Hemingway as neighbor in Idaho by my former employees.
Please see the photos.
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.
Reviews
On Dec 18 2015, a reader said:
It has a good plot, but its boring.
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- Bookseller
- acs books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3715
- Title
- Farewell to Arms
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Brown cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- missing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner & Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 355
- Size
- 5" x 8 "
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- hemingway scribner italy ambulance world war 1 volunteers novel fiction childbirth infant mortality mother death army italian medical stretcher
- Bookseller catalogs
- literature;
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