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A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Original publication
1929
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
505
Difficulty
★★☆
Genres
History, Romance
Translated from
English

Book summary

Frederic Henry, an ambulance driver serving in World War I, tries to survive the chaos of the Italian front. Amid the violence and absurdity of war, he meets Catherine, a nurse with whom he falls in love. Their relationship becomes a fragile refuge from the brutality of the world around them. But the reality of the conflict always catches up with those who try to escape it. This novel offers a clear and stripped-down vision of war and love, exploring the fragility of human hopes in the face of fate. The author delivers an intense narrative about loss, courage, and attachment.

The plot

A summer in Milan, far from the war. Frederic, an American, drives ambulances for the Italian army. Wounded, he is treated in Milan. Catherine, the English nurse he loves, comes to work at his hospital.

The world of the book

Northern Italy, 1915 to 1918. In 1915, Italy enters the First World War against Austria-Hungary. The front runs through the mountains in the north-east of the country. Foreign volunteers, American or English, drive…

The author

At 18, he drives an ambulance in Italy. This young American is a reporter on a Kansas City newspaper when he joins the Red Cross. In 1918, he drives ambulances on the Italian front. In Milan, he falls in love with…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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