A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

First edition
Author	Ernest Hemingway
Cover artist	Cleo Damianakes (Cleon)[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Realism
Published	1929 (Scribner)
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	355
Text	A Farewell to Arms online

A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (Italian: tenente) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The novel describes a love affair between the American expatriate and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley.

Its publication ensured Hemingway's place as a modern American writer of considerable stature.^[2] The book became his first best-seller^[3] and has been called "the premier American war novel from [...] World War I".^[4] The title might be taken from a 16th‑century poem of the same name by the English dramatist George Peele.

The novel has been adapted a number of times: initially for the stage in 1930; as a film in 1932, and again in 1957; and as a three-part television miniseries in 1966. The film In Love and War, made in 1996, depicts Hemingway's life in Italy as an ambulance driver in events prior to his writing of A Farewell to Arms.