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Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · Literary Fiction · 352 pages

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🌶️🌶️🌶️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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