Farewell to Arms, A
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a 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
After that, I read Hemingway on my own and discovered the short stories and the novel A Farewell to Arms, which is my absolute favorite.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 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
What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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