Literary Fiction· United States
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest HemingwayAggregate Editorial Score42/100
TIME 100 Best Novels
Published 1929332 pagesEnglish
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Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (1929) stands as one of the most significant works of literary fiction of its era. An American lieutenant in the Italian army falls in love with a British nurse during World War I. Hemingway's autobiographically based anti-war love story is one of the defining novels of the twentieth century—spare, devastating, and deeply moving. Themes of World War I, love, war run through the work. The book has received recognition from TIME 100 Best Novels 1929.
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