A Farewell to Arms

1929 · Book · Ernest Hemingway

“In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.”

A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I." by Ernest Hemingway