A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms is a 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway, set during World War I, that tells the tragic love story of an American ambulance driver, Frederic Henry, and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley, on the Italian front. Drawing from Hemingway's own experiences, the book is famous for its stark realism, depiction of the "Lost Generation's" disillusionment, and its famously rewritten ending, becoming a major work of American literature and a bestseller.