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Farewell to Arms, A
Farewell to Arms, Anouna novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms(1929) A novel by Ernest Hemingway, set in World War I. An American soldier and an English nurse fall in love; he deserts to join her, and she dies in childbirth.
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It was here that I finished "A Farewell to Arms."
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2021
In voiceover, Jeff Daniels reads Hemingway’s own works and letters with a piercing calm, including this beautiful passage from A Farewell to Arms:
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2021
There is a sun-soaked corner in the far west of Slovenia, where Hemingway set A Farewell to Arms and where the border was drawn with Italy after the first world war.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2020
Looking at the photographs, I suggest the the exhibtion be titled "A Farewell to Arms."
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
“Mr. Kauffman forced us to read A Farewell to Arms last year. I hated it. Hemingway’s writing is so bland. He never says anything.”
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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