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Farewell to Arms, A

American  

noun

  1. a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.


A Farewell to Arms Cultural  
  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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The eagerly awaited fourth volume of his letters begins as Hemingway makes final revisions to A Farewell to Arms, the 1929 novel that was to bring him international fame and became his first bestseller.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2017

Looking at the photographs, I suggest the the exhibtion be titled "A Farewell to Arms."

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017

Writing his iconic novel A Farewell to Arms in the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway famously tried out forty-seven different endings.

From Salon ● May 3, 2015

By Yesterday, the New York Times reported that Ernest Hemingway may have produced as many as 47 endings to his midcareer masterpiece, A Farewell to Arms.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2012

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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