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A Farewell to Arms is probably the best novel written about World War I (with Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front a strong runner-up), and it bears comparison to the best American books about World War II (Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller among them), Korea (James Salter's The Hunters), and ...
A short summary of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of A Farewell to Arms.
A Farewell to Arms takes place in Italy during World War I, and the lives of all the characters are marked by the war. Most of the characters, from Henry and Catherine down to the soldiers and shop owners whom Henry meets, are humanists who echo Hemingway's view that war is a senseless waste of life.
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 ...
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A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American epic war drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht , based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings , was the second feature-film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway 's 1929 semiautobiographical novel of the same name .
1929: A Farewell to Arms published; Hemingway's father commits suicide. 1930s Hemingway's two memoirs, Death in the Afternoon and Green Hills of Africa, published, 1932 and 1935. 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. 1937-38: Hemingway travels as a war correspondent to the Spanish Civil War.
