General Information
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 Title.................: A Farewell to Arms
 Author................: Ernest Hemingway
 Read By...............: Alexander Adams
 Copyright.............: 1929
 Audiobook Copyright...: 1999
 Publisher.............: Books on Tape
 Abridged..............: No

Original Media Information
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 ISBN..................: 0736651799
 Media.................: CD
 Number................: 7
 Source................: Library
 Condition.............: Used

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Book Description
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As a youth of 18, Ernest Hemingway was eager to fight in the Great War. 
Poor vision kept him out of the army, so he joined the ambulance corps 
instead and was sent to France. Then he transferred to Italy where he 
became the first American wounded in that country during World War I. 
Hemingway came out of the European battlefields with a medal for valor 
and a wealth of experience that he would, 10 years later, spin into 
literary gold with A Farewell to Arms. This is the story of Lieutenant 
Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. The two 
meet in Italy, and almost immediately Hemingway sets up the central 
tension of the novel: the tenuous nature of love in a time of war. During 
their first encounter, Catherine tells Henry about her fiancé of eight 
years who had been killed the year before in the Somme. Explaining why 
she hadn't married him, she says she was afraid marriage would be bad 
for him, then admits: 
I wanted to do something for him. You see, I didn't care about the other 
thing and he could have had it all. He could have had anything he wanted 
if I would have known. I would have married him or anything. I know 
all about it now. But then he wanted to go to war and I didn't know. 
The two begin an affair, with Henry quite convinced that he "did not 
love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, 
like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards." Soon 
enough, however, the game turns serious for both of them and ultimately 
Henry ends up deserting to be with Catherine. 
Hemingway was not known for either unbridled optimism or happy endings, 
and A Farewell to Arms, like his other novels (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 
The Sun Also Rises, and To Have and Have Not), offers neither. What 
it does provide is an unblinking portrayal of men and women behaving 
with grace under pressure, both physical and psychological, and somehow 
finding the courage to go on in the face of certain loss.

