A Farewell To Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

Martin Rubin at the Washington Times offers a good review of the new edition of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel, A Farewell to Arms.

Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” stands, more than 80 years after its first appearance, as a towering ornament of American literature. Seeing this new edition of the great classic novel, with the very same cover that adorned it back in 1929, is somehow moving; how much more so it must be for its publisher then and now.

 

“A Farewell to Arms” is one of those texts that transcends its impetus. Yes, it is undeniably a powerful denunciation and expose of the horrors of war, specifically World War I, as is clear from Hemingway’s passionate introduction to a new edition reprinted in this volume. Written shortly after another equally but differently terrible global conflict, it seethes with his hatred of war. But it radiates something else as well, a different kind of passion — for creativity, for writing, for spinning the gold of literature out of his experience.

You can read the rest of the review via the below link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/3/book-review-a-farewell-to-arms-the-hemingway-libra/