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Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · Literary Fiction · 352 pages
36 Pulse Score
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historical fictionforbidden romancesecond chance romancetrauma recovery
historical fiction
🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
#434 All Time
About this book
A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."
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