EAN: 9780143138839

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Hemingway’s beloved novel of doomed love during wartime now available for the first time from Penguin Classics 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 Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper 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.

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