A Farewell to Arms

Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Theirs is an intense, tender and passionate love affair overshadowed by the war. Ernest Hemingway spares nothing in his denunciation of the horrors of combat, yet vividly depicts the courage shown by so many. In writing A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway was inspired by his own wartime experience as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. First published in 1929, the novel made his name and remains one of his finest works. This stunning edition features an afterword by Ned Halley.Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Product details

• Authors: Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway Ernest
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781909621411
• ISBN: 978-1-909621-41-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 158 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Literary, Italy, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Modernism, First World War fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), War, combat and military adventure fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)