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Sinopsis de A FAREWELL TO ARMS
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. In writing A Farewell to Arms, 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. This stunning edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. 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.
1 reseñas sobre el libro A FAREWELL TO ARMS
For me, this might be the most touching novel by the great Hemingway. I’ve read a lot of bad reviews about this one, but they just don’t do any justice to the book. I certainly have to say that it was a thrilling reading along the way and the ending is simply unbeatable. I was able to get myself an anniversary edition with a lot of early drafts, notes and some prologues and comments by Hemingway’s sons and you’ll have to excuse me for not reading all the possible endings, but for me, there’s no other way to end this book like Hemingway did. A classic gem and a “must” for the ones who enjoy reading the great American authors such as: Capote, Hemingway, Faulkner or Steinbeck (just to mention a few of them). Long live Hemingway!
