A Farewell to Arms

A love story. A war story. And the novel that made Hemingway famous.

Ernest Hemingway's semi-autobiographical masterpiece is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century—a spare, devastating account of love and loss on the Italian front of World War I.

Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver in the Italian army, is wounded and falls in love with his nurse, Catherine Barkley. Their affair unfolds against the chaos of retreat, bombardment, and the slow collapse of the Italian military. Frederic deserts the war. He and Catherine flee to neutral Switzerland, hoping to build a life together. But the war has already done its damage, and Hemingway's famously terse prose builds toward an ending that still shocks readers a century later. The novel's final pages are among the most heartbreaking in English literature, and among the most debated.

This is Hemingway at his most tender and brutal: a novel about the impossibility of escaping violence, the fragility of happiness, and the courage required to love when loss is certain. A Farewell to Arms is not a romance—it is a reckoning.

• One of the defining novels of the "Lost Generation," alongside The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby

• Hemingway's famously spare, muscular prose changed American writing forever

• Based on Hemingway's own experience as an ambulance driver in Italy, where he was wounded and fell in love with a nurse

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A beautifully crafted edition for your shelf, your device, or your ears—or the perfect gift for anyone who knows that saying goodbye is never the hardest part.

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he served as an ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I—an experience that shaped A Farewell to Arms (1929). He was a leading figure of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community in Paris, where he was mentored by Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. His other major works include The Sun Also Rises (1926), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea(1952), which won the Pulitzer Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway died by suicide in 1961. His spare, understated prose style—often called the "Iceberg Theory"—has influenced generations of writers.