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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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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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