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A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I.First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (Italian: tenente) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ / HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.
In the 1920s, Hemingway was inspired by Ezra Pound's writings and applied the poet's principles of imagism to his own early work. [2] Hemingway's short stories from the 1920s adhere to Pound's tight definition of imagism; [3] biographer Carlos Baker writes that in his short stories Hemingway tried to learn how to "get the most from the least, [to] prune language, [to] multiply intensities, [to ...
The short story takes place in war-torn Europe, specifically in Italy, which Hemingway chose due to his firsthand experiences there. "Now I Lay Me" is a short story about two men sleeping in a tent. However simple a story it may be, it reveals the psyche of military men.
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War is a collection of works by Ernest Hemingway. [1] It contains Hemingway's only full length play, The Fifth Column, which was previously published along with the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, along with four stories about Hemingway's experiences during the Spanish Civil War, previously published on magazines between 1938 and 1939.
"In Another Country" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway. [1] It was published in Hemingway's 1927 short story collection, Men Without Women . The story deals with WWI soldiers receiving treatment in Italy during the war.
Julien Bryan – combat photographer, filmmaker and documentarian who volunteered with the American Field Service for the French Army in World War I, driving an ambulance in Verdun and the Argonne, [4] and subsequently wrote a book Ambulance 464 about his experience illustrated with his photographs. [5]
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American epic war drama film directed by Charles Vidor.The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature-film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semiautobiographical novel of the same name.