A Farewell to Arms
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (913 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000FIHM3K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
As a youth of 18, Ernest Hemingway was eager to fight in the Great War. I would have married him or anything. You see, I didn't care about the other thing and he could have had it all. 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. 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. 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. Then he transferred to Italy where he became the first American wounded
Portrait of the Artist as a sour Old Man In the final years of his life, Irish-American Scott Fitzgerald transposed himself into the soul of Monroe Stahr, the Jewish head of a powerful film studio. Employed as an MGM writer, Fitzgerald based the prototypical artist as business man on his highly romantic view of his boss Irving Thalberg. Odder still is this choice of Fitzgerald's friend, the non-combatant Hemingway, to see himself as a sort of benevolent and book-reading Patton, a gruf. Nobel Prize winner but not my favourite Paul Rooney Frederick Henry is an American soldier serving as a Ambulance driver for the Italian Army in the First World War.Through a colleague he meets Catherine Barkley , a British nurse. This book is the story of their love affair with the war as a back drop.Shortly after the initial meeting Henry is seriously wounded and the affair blossoms as Catherine nurses him and becomes his lover. The wounding is what occurred to Hemingway in real life and he su. “A Farewell to Arms is one of the great books of the twentieth century “A Farewell to Arms is one of the great books of the twentieth century.” – So says the first line of the introduction of this book by Sean Hemingway (Ernest’s grandson). I disagree.While there are some interesting insights into the misery and meaninglessness of war (WWI in this case), little else about the book seemed worth reading. Imagine a book written by a depressed alcoholic writing about war, love, and loss…
Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto -- of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized -- is one of the greatest moments in literary history. The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was 3