Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms [1st edition, 1931].

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Ernest Hemingway
Farewell to Arms

Warsaw 1931 first Polish edition
Towarzystwo Wydawnicze "Rój"
By authority of the author translated: Zbigniew Grabowski
Drukarnia Narodowa w Krakowie

389(3)p.
o. half cloth with marbled paper
p. bdb- strengthening pages, priv. signature.
For. ca: 19x13.5 cm

"This is Hemingway's first great novel - and his first huge literary success. The author finished it in September 1928, already an established novelist and poet. But he still spent several months chiseling its text with great insight and care (he reworked the novel's ending thirty times!)

A Farewell to Arms was rooted in the author's own experiences from just a few weeks' service with the American Red Cross on the Italian-Austrian front during the final phase of World War I.

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And at the same time, "A Farewell to Arms" is one of the most beautiful - and saddest - love novels of 20th century literature; this value of Hemingway's work was determined by the bitterness of his personal love dramas, transformed by his uncommon talent into a work of writing of the highest class. A vivid and poignant work more than seventy years after its creation."

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