A Farewell to Arms, third novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1929. Its depiction of the … See more

The plot of A Farewell to Arms is fairly straightforward. While working with the Italian ambulance service during World War I (1914–18), the American lieutenant Frederic H… See more

In 1958 Hemingway told George Plimpton of The Paris Review that he “rewrote the ending to [A] Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.” … See more

Hemingway wrote and revised A Farewell to Arms in 15 months. The work was first published serially in the United States in Scribner’s Magazine between May and October 19… See more

A Farewell to Arms has been praised for its realistic depiction of war. Its realism has often been attributed to personal experience: the novel is informed in no small part b… See more

A Farewell to Arms was one of the most widely read war novels of the 20th century. It was published during the period between World War I and World War II, a time when war novels … See more