Farewell to Arms

"Flawless... such mastery of narrative, imagery and feeling, the prerequisites for great prose" -- Edna O'Brien Guardian "It seems such simple and straightforward language, but it isn't. The first chapter of A Farewell to Arms is only two and a bit pages but there is almost every variety of sentence structure. It is incredibly artful writing, and part of the art is disguising that it is artful" -- John Harvey Guardian "There is something so complete in Mr. Hemingway's achievement in A Farewell to Arms that one is left speculating as to whether another novel will follow in this manner, and whether it does not complete both a period and a phase...crisply natural and convincing" Guardian, 1929 19291213 "A novel of great power" Times Literary Supplement "Essential Hemingway...a gripping account of the life of an American volunteer in the Italian army and a poignant love story" Daily Express