EAN: 9780143138822

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A collectible hardcover edition of Hemingway’s beloved novel of doomed love during wartime with a new foreword by Abraham Verghese the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A Penguin Vitae Edition A Farewell to Arms is one of Ernest Hemingway’s most popular books a masterpiece that is not only among the greatest novels to come out of World War I but also one of the most profoundly moving in the American canon. Based on Hemingway’s own experience volunteering with the Red Cross in Italy during World War I and written when he was only thirty it tells the story of Frederic Henry an American ambulance driver and Catherine Barkley an English nurse. For Frederic Catherine’s kindness and beauty shore him up against the carnage of battle for Catherine Frederic’s strength and devotion are a lifeboat in the sea of grief over her first love. Through injury surgery and the psychic fallout of war they maintain an overwhelming desire to be together even as forces conspire to keep them apart. Hemingway captures the intensity of both love and war with the taut immediacy and spare understated eloquence that are his hallmarks reminding us why this novel—his first bestseller—endures as a favorite and why the Nobel laureate ranks among our most treasured writers. Penguin Vitae—loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life"—is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration intellectual engagement and creative originality.

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