Excelling in English at school, he became a junior reporter for the Kansas City Star. Born in Chicago, he was grew up in the prosperous suburb of Oak Park. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I." Įrnest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American writer of novels and short stories. The title is taken from a poem by 16th-century English dramatist George Peele.Ī Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations.
The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. Fiction, historical, romance, war, World War I, Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, film/TV adaptationĪ Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I.
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