{"product_id":"a-farewell-to-arms","title":"A Farewell to Arms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1929, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Ernest Hemingway’s haunting novel of love and disillusionment during the First World War. Set against the Italian campaign, it follows Frederic Henry, an American ambulance lieutenant serving in the Italian army, whose chance encounter with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse, develops into a passionate and increasingly desperate romance. As the war carries them between the mountains, military hospitals, and retreating armies of northern Italy, their relationship becomes a refuge from the violence and uncertainty surrounding them. What begins almost carelessly grows into something neither can easily surrender.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing upon Hemingway’s own experiences as an ambulance driver wounded on the Italian front, the novel explores the fragile boundaries between love and loss, courage and despair, loyalty and disillusionment. Its spare dialogue, restrained emotion, and unsentimental treatment of war helped establish the distinctive style that would define Hemingway’s literary reputation. Beneath its apparent simplicity lies a profound examination of the human desire to find meaning and tenderness in an indifferent world. Alongside \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, it remains one of the defining works of the Lost Generation and a landmark of twentieth-century American fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Ernest Hemingway, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“There is something so complete in Mr. Hemingway's achievement in A Farewell to Arms…”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— The Guardian, 13 December 1929\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63865509577034,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/a-farewell-to-arms","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}