A Farewell to Arms: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

A Farewell to Arms: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

$18.00
$18.00
Skip to product information
A Farewell to Arms: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
  • A Farewell to Arms: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
A Farewell to Arms: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

A Farewell to Arms: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

by Ernest Hemingway
$18.00
$18.00

Book Overview

by Ernest Hemingway (Author), Abraham Verghese (Foreword by)

Hemingway's beloved novel of doomed love during wartime, now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, with a new foreword by Abraham Verghese, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper

A Farewell to Arms is one of Ernest Hemingway's most popular books, a masterpiece that is not only among the greatest novels to come out of World War I but also one of the most profoundly moving in the American canon. Based on Hemingway's own experience volunteering with the Red Cross in Italy during World War I, and written when he was only thirty, it tells the story of Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver, and Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. For Frederic, Catherine's kindness and beauty shore him up against the carnage of battle; for Catherine, Frederic's strength and devotion are a lifeboat in the sea of grief over her first love. Through injury, surgery, and the psychic fallout of war, they maintain an overwhelming desire to be together, even as forces conspire to keep them apart. Hemingway captures the intensity of both love and war with the taut immediacy and spare, understated eloquence that are his hallmarks, reminding us why this novel--his first bestseller--endures as a favorite, and why the Nobel laureate ranks among our most treasured writers.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author Biography

Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961) wrote in a clear, spare, deceptively simple style that made him one of the most admired and imitated authors of the twentieth century. Born in Chicago, he traveled widely throughout his life, living in Italy, France, Spain, and Cuba, and reporting from the frontlines of World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. His best-known novels are The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. A year later Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Abraham Verghese (foreword) is the author of the multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling novels The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone, and the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. In 2016 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama.
Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 0.93 x 8.4 x 5.65 IN
Publication Date: September 23, 2025
ISBN9780143138839
Author Ernest Hemingway
PublisherPenguin Classics
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

Classics Fiction War & Military

1% fer Each of the Seven Seas

Every purchase sends 7% of our profits to The Ocean Cleanup. No fine print, no opt-in — just how we sail.

Whoever Ye Be, Welcome Aboard

Queer lit, music, art, philosophy, fiction — stories for every kind of soul. Come as ye are, matey.

More by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man And The Sea

The Old Man And The Sea - Hardcover

The Old Man And The Sea - Hardcover

By Ernest Hemingway

About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.

You may also like