{"product_id":"a-farewell-to-arms","title":"A Farewell to Arms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive edition of the classic World War I romance novel, featuring all of the alternate endings: \"Fascinating...serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author's process\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the unforgettable tragic story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet against the looming horrors of the battlefield frontlines--weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion--this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eErnest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all the alternative endings together for the first time, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway's craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFeaturing Hemingway's own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel, a personal foreword by the author's son Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the author's grandson Seán Hemingway, this edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis truly a celebration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publish date - 1995 - paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53477901435190,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/FullSizeRender_d4e2b1c1-762f-49d5-b045-b3db5525737c.jpg?v=1765567408","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/a-farewell-to-arms","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}