Description
| Product ID: | 9781909621411 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Title: | A Farewell To Arms |
| Authors: | Author: Ernest Hemingway |
| Page Count: | 360 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), First World War fiction, First World War fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An immensely powerful novel of love and war based on Ernest Hemingway's own wartime experience. <p>Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Theirs is an intense, tender and passionate love affair overshadowed by the war. Ernest Hemingway spares nothing in his denunciation of the horrors of combat, yet vividly depicts the courage shown by so many. <br><br>In writing<i> A Farewell to Arms</i>, Hemingway was inspired by his own wartime experience as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. First published in 1929, the novel made his name and remains one of his finest works. <br><br>This stunning edition features an afterword by Ned Halley.<br><br>Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-07-14 |