Publisher's Synopsis
This great story tells an unforgettable love story between a nurse and an idealistic young soldier in World War I Italy, written by the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature Ernest Hemingway.He did not love Catherine Barkley, nor did it occur to him that he could love her. This was like bridge, a game where you talk instead of dealing with the cards. That's what the American Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War I, thought, shortly after meeting this beautiful British nurse. What seemed like a game turned into intense passion, as the war swept through everything and the men paraded in the rain, exhausted and hungry, thinking of nothing but fleeing death.Inspired by the experiences of Hemingway, Farewell to Arms is already a classic of world literature and one of the best portraits of the human will.
