A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
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Registered by wingCordelia-annewing of Decatur, Georgia USA on 9/28/2022
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Journal Entry 1 by wingCordelia-annewing from Decatur, Georgia USA on Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Hemingway was a favorite author of my father's. I remember this was an assigned book in high school, that I read it then and that I watched the Rock Hudson--Jennifer Jones movie with my parents when it played on TV. I'm registering this book with the intention of reading it and reaching back toward those memories.

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The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times).

Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield—weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.

Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings together for the first time, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway’s craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring Hemingway’s own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel, a personal foreword by the author’s son Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the author’s grandson Seán Hemingway, this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration.

Journal Entry 2 by wingCordelia-annewing at Decatur, Georgia USA on Tuesday, October 18, 2022
I have decided to release this before re-reading. There are copies in my public library and I am already over-committed in my reading schedule.

Journal Entry 3 by wingCordelia-annewing at Town Square Little Free Library in Roswell, Georgia USA on Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (10/19/2022 UTC) at Town Square Little Free Library in Roswell, Georgia USA

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Journal Entry 4 by wingCordelia-annewing at Decatur, Georgia USA on Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Stopping by the Town Square Little Free Library, I was happy to see that someone chose this book. It is traveling and I hope having great BookCrossing adventures.

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