Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield ? weary, demoralised men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion ? this gripping, semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings (forty-seven in total) together for the first time, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway?s...
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