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A Farewell to Arms is ranked 74th on Modern Generation,” a subset of Modernist artists namely defined by their post-warĭisillusionment. More specifically, the novelĪnd its content helped to established the author as a key member of the “Lost Hemingway's first bestseller, affording him financial independence andĬementing his stature as a modern American writer. The best novels written about World War I… ever. The result of this immediacy? Arguably one of Isn't alluded to in the book at all, as it was common knowledge around the time Ten years after the November 1918 armistice, Hemingway assumed his audience As the work became available to the public just over

May-October issues Scribner's Magazine 1929. While some assume the title of the work to be taken from a poem by 16th centuryĮnglish dramatist George Peele, others believe it to be a simple pun of theĪ Farewell to Arms was first serialized in the

Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the war. The novel is semi-autobiographical, based on Set during World War 1, Ernest Hemingway’s Aįarewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American servingĪs an ambulance driver in the Italian army, and his love affair with an English

A farewell to arms 1929 edition