First issue, with no disclaimer in book and 'Katherine' instead of 'Catherine' on dust jacket flap. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. During the ten-year interim, he had worked effectively as a foreign correspondent and then abandoned that career to devote all his energy to fashioning the understated and pared-away prose style that was his most important legacy to twentieth-century literature" (Donaldson, New Essays on A Farewell to Arms). Published just as he passed his thirtieth birthday, it brought him the kind of public and critical acclaim he had been seeking since he had decided, in the aftermath of his wounding in 1918, to become a writer. " A Farewell to Arms made Hemingway a famous author. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”įIRST EDITION of arguably Hemingway's greatest work. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. “If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them.
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