Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for his economical, understated prose; author of The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls; awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Books
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1. A Farewell To Arms
An American ambulance driver serving with the Italian forces during World War I falls into a passionate, complicated relationship with a British nurse amid the chaos of battle; their love offers refuge from the brutality of war but is tested by injury, retreat, and bureaucratic indifference. After being wounded and returning to the front, he deserts and the couple flee to Switzerland seeking peace, only for their fragile hopes to collapse when tragedy strikes during childbirth. The narrative is a spare, elegiac exploration of courage, disillusionment, and the costs of love in a world ravaged by conflict.
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2. A Farewell To Arms
An American ambulance driver serving on the Italian front during World War I falls into a passionate, sheltering affair with a British nurse; their love offers brief reprieve from the brutality and bureaucratic indifference of war, but wounds, desertion, and the impossibility of lasting safety follow. After seeking refuge in neutral Switzerland, the couple’s hopes are crushed by the stillbirth of their child and the nurse’s death in childbirth, leaving him alone to reckon with loss, disillusionment, and the human cost of conflict.
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