A Farewell to Arms Unabridged, Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms Unabridged, Ernest Hemingway
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A Farewell to Arms - Unabridged

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Joseph Wycoff

Unabridged: 9 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/17/2024

Synopsis

"A Farewell to Arms" was Ernest Hemingway's first best-seller and the acclaim garnered by this book put his name on the 20th century literary map. The novel is based on Hemingway's own experiences serving as an ambulance driver during the Italian campaign in World War I and has often been cited as one of the best war novels ever written. The story follows the service of Frederic Henry, an American medic serving in the Italian army during the First World War. Frederic meets and falls in love with an English nurse named Catherine Berkley. Catherine has lost her fiancé in battle and initially rebuffs Frederic's advances, but when he is wounded at the Italian front and sent to her hospital for treatment, their romance blossoms, leading the two lovers to attempt to flee the conflict and start a life together. A blockbuster literary achievement for Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms" has become a classic of American fiction. It is presented here in its original and unabridged format.

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

AudiobooksNow review by Jack on 2025-02-11 00:25:35

A classic tale...and a brilliant reader. Highly recommended.

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 Vit on July 19, 2025

There is something hopeless in love in the time of war… But love there is… A Farewell to Arms was the first novel I read in English… I never was out of a dictionary… Reading was quite a labour… And the book made a very strong impression on me… I can’t recall the novel without an attack of nostalgia e......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

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