A Farewell to Arms
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Vintage 1953 Printing. This is a later printing from 1953. Measures approximately 8.5" x 5.5", 342 numbered pages. With its original dust jacket.
This book is in vey good condition. Silver lettering bright and well preserved. White paint or similar staining at the very bottom of the spine also affecting the front board. Dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Chipping and sunning to spine. Top corner of front flap creased. Minor small stain on the rear panel.
Early in 1918, Ernest Hemingway joined the Italian Red Cross and served as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. During his time abroad, Hemingway had two experiences that affected him profoundly and that would later inspire one of his most celebrated novels, A Farewell to Arms. The first occurred on July 8, 1918, when a trench mortar shell struck him while he crouched beyond the front lines with three Italian soldiers. Though Hemingway embellished the story over the years, it is certain that he was transferred to a hospital in Milan, where he fell in love with a Red Cross nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky. Scholars are divided over Agnes' role in Hemingway's life and writing, but there is little doubt that his relationship with her informed the relationship between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms. What unfolds is a story filled with romance intertwined with moments of bravery, danger, love, and loss.
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Inventory #(N3-39). Item #3940
Price: $75.00