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A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway · 1929

Classics · ranked #68 in category

American ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley during the First World War in Italy. Their love story plays out against the background of military defeat and retreat. Hemingway's semi-autobiographical novel is his most romantically devastating — a war novel in which the war is not the worst thing that happens.

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Category
Classics
First published
1929 · 1920s
Author
Ernest Hemingway
Standing
Essential Read

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