Farewell to Arms, A

noun

1. a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.

A Farewell to Arms

1. (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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"Adios a las Armas," or "Farewell to Arms," a finalist in a government competition in July for non-violent video games, aims to raise awareness about a peace deal being negotiated in Cuba which voters will back or reject in a referendum.

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Cathedral Dean Gary Hall will lead a discussion of Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms,” a novel set in Italy during World War I and based on the author’s wartime experiences.

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Agnes von Kurowsky, his World War I nurse, became Catherine in A Farewell to Arms; a hard-drinking English aristocrat, Lady Duff Twysden, turned up as Lady Brett in The Sun Also Rises; the aging colonel's lissome contessa in Across the River and Into the Trees is a highly romanticized version of 19-year-old Adriana Ivancich, an Italian beauty whom the Hemingways knew in Venice in 1949.

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The report that Paramount had given A Farewell to Arms a happy ending has more truth in it.

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