– Første verdenskrig er igang. Amerikaneren Frederick Henry melder seg frivillig som ambulansesjåfør i den italienske fronten mot Østerrike. Underveis blir han introdusert for den vakre, engelske sykepleieren Catherine Barkley. De får raskt et øye med hverandre, men å treffes blir vanskelig under krigens forhold. Henry blir etter litt skadet helt plutselig i en skuddveksling. På sykehuset er han heldig fordi han får bli pleiet av nettopp Catherine Barkley. Det var bare det med at sårene pleies, og Henry må tilbake til fronten igjen før eller senere. Språket er vakkert og skildringene like så, og det er egentlig det denne boken spiller på. Det er ikke spenning man skal være ute etter i denne boken, med flotte og karakteristiske dialoger, språket og kjærligheten. Eneste minus er at den er litt tam i enkelte partier. Anbefales!
Farewell To Arms
Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Theirs is an intense, tender and passionate love affair overshadowed by the war. Ernest Hemingway spares nothing in his denunciation of the horrors of combat, yet vividly depicts the courage shown by so many.
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Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Theirs is an intense, tender and passionate love affair overshadowed by the war. Ernest Hemingway spares nothing in his denunciation of the horrors of combat, yet vividly depicts the courage shown by so many.
In writing A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway was inspired by his own wartime experience as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. First published in 1929, the novel made his name and remains one of his finest works.
This stunning edition features an afterword by Ned Halley.
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Macmillan Collector's Library
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 360
- ISBN
- 9781909621411
- Utgivelsesår
- 2016
- Format
- 16 x 10 cm
Om forfatteren
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in 1899. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. Their home was in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb.
In 1917 Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year he volunteered to work as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front, where he was badly wounded but twice decorated for his services. In 1922 he reported on the Greco-Turkish War, then two years later resigned from journalism to devote himself to fiction.
Hemingway's first two published works were Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time but it was the satirical novel The Torrents of Spring that established his name more widely. His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books: Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in the bestseller For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.