A Farewell to Arms
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A Farewell to Arms is a classic war-time romance novel by Ernest Hemingway that follows an American ambulance driver in World War I and explores themes of love, loss, and the brutality of conflict.
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| A Farewell to Arms (1957 film) | 2 |
| A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) | 1 |
| A Farewell to Arms (stage adaptation) | 1 |
| A Farewell to Arms (television adaptation) | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
novel
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romance novel ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
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| author | Ernest Hemingway ⓘ |
| censorship | banned in Italy ⓘ |
| censorshipReason | perceived as anti-war and critical of the Italian army ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Helen Ferguson
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Rinaldi ⓘ the priest ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States
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| criticalReputation |
considered a classic of 20th-century literature
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considered one of Hemingway's major works ⓘ |
| endingType | tragic ending ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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war fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780684801469 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Ernest Hemingway's experiences as an ambulance driver in World War I ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Lost Generation ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Modernist literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
Hemingway iceberg theory
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Hemingway's iceberg theory
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| mainCharacter |
Catherine Barkley
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Frederic Henry ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| motif |
rain
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retreat and escape ⓘ wounds and injury ⓘ |
| narrationType | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | American ambulance driver in the Italian army ⓘ |
| protagonist | Frederic Henry ⓘ |
| publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War I ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
Italy
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Italian Front ⓘ
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the Italian Front
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| structure | divided into five books ⓘ |
| theme |
disillusionment
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loss ⓘ love ⓘ the brutality of conflict ⓘ the futility of war ⓘ the randomness of death ⓘ war ⓘ |
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A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)
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A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)
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A Farewell to Arms (stage adaptation)
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A Farewell to Arms (television adaptation)
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A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)