Ernest HemingwayΓÇÖs classic novel of love during wartime. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I,A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefieldthis grippingsemiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. A classic novel of love during wartimeΓÇ£A Farewell to Arms standsmore than eighty years after its first appearanceas a towering ornament of American literatureΓÇ¥ (The Washington Times).