A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
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A Farewell to Arms

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Jacob Rivers

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2025


Synopsis

A moving love story set against the turmoil of war.
American Lieutenant Frederic Henry serves in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during World War I. While stationed in northern Italy, he meets beautiful English nurse Catherine Barkley and falls in love with her. However, the passionate romance between the two is overshadowed by the horrors of war. Frederic heads to the front with a small unit, which he loses during an offensive, and must decide whether to become a deserter or die. Can he count on a stroke of luck in such grim times?
Writing A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway drew inspiration from his own war experiences. In this captivating, semi-autobiographical prose written in a spare style, he captures the harsh realities of war, its senselessness and mindless cruelty, as well as the suffering of lovers trapped in the grip of forces greater than individual desires. His portrayal of the main character reflects the loneliness and disillusionment of the "lost generation" – people who entered adulthood during World War I.
First published in 1929, the novel is one of Hemingway's finest works.

About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on February 21, 2024

welcome to...A FEBRUARY TO ARMS. you know it, you love it. a bad month and title pun, an intimidating book, and me, at the beginning-ish of february. it's another installment of project long classics, in which every(ish) month i read a long(ish) classic in small(ish) chunks to make them less scary. be......more

Goodreads review by Jason on May 23, 2008

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.) The CCLaP 100: In which I read a hundred so-called "classics" for the first time, then write reports......more

Goodreads review by Matt on June 29, 2021

I just finished it, and I'm disappointed. And not only disappointed; I'm also bothered by it. I guess I shouldn't be surprised at Hemingway's one-dimensional, sexist portrayal of Catherine Barkley, having read much of his other work, but somehow I still am. Put simply, Catherine is a ridiculous figu......more

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on August 19, 2024

What do F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jack Edwards have in common? They were both right about this book! Jack Edwardrated this as “I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy” and said it was quite dull. F. Scott Fitzgerald was even more savage. These are direct quotes from Fitzgerald to Hemingway: “The characte......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn Marie on January 25, 2023

I have so many thoughts but no idea how to put them into words…*weeps rainy tears*......more