A Farewell to Arms (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- 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
- Principal Characters: Frederic Henry, Catherine Barkley
- 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
The Story:
Lieutenant Frederic Henry was a young American attached to an Italian ambulance unit on the Italian front. An offensive was soon to begin, and when Henry returned to the front from leave, he learned from his friend, Lieutenant Rinaldi, that a group of British nurses had arrived in his absence to set up a British hospital unit. Rinaldi introduced him to Nurse Catherine Barkley. Between ambulance trips to evacuation posts at the front, Henry called on Miss Barkley. He liked the frank young English girl in a casual sort of way, but he was not in love with her. Before he...
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