a farewell to arms

First published in 1929, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a stark, deeply felt portrait of love and war. Set against the brutality of the Italian front during the First World War, the novel follows American ambulance driver Lieutenant Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley as they navigate devotion, disillusionment, and the high cost of survival. With spare, resonant prose and unflinching honesty, Hemingway captures the exhilaration and catastrophe of a world unmade—and the fragile hope two people dare to claim within it.