J. B. Priestley (essay date Winter 1929)
SOURCE: A review of A Farewell to Arms, in Now and Then, Vol. 34, Winter 1929, pp. 11–12.
[In the following essay, the Priestley recommends Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms to readers while expressing some reservations about its franker aspects.]
Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms is one of the very best novels that have passed through the hands of the Book Society Committee. Why, then, didn't we choose it? Well, I think anybody who reads our first choice,...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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