Dec 17, 2009

A Farewell to Arms | A Farewell to Arms

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Author: Ernest Hemingway
First Published: 1929
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
Time of Work: World War I
Setting: Northern Italy and Switzerland
Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
Subjects: Values, Love or romance, Escapes, 1910’s, Pregnancy, Moral conditions, World War I, Fate or fatalism, Soldiers, Nursing or nurses, Italy or Italians, Switzerland or Swiss people
Locales: Italy, Switzerland

Characters Discussed

Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American who has volunteered to serve with an Italian ambulance unit during World War I. Like his Italian companions, he enjoys drinking, trying to treat the war as a joke, and (it is implied) visiting brothels. Before the beginning of a big offensive, he meets Catherine Barkley, one of a group of British nurses assigned to staff a hospital unit. Henry begins the prelude to an affair with her but is interrupted by having to go to the front during the offensive; he is wounded, has an operation on his knee, and is sent to...

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A Farewell to Arms | A Farewell to Arms

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