ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A Farewell to Arms, third novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1929. Its depiction of the existential disillusionment of the “Lost Generation” echoes his early short stories and his first major novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926). A Farewell to Arms is particularly notable for its autobiographical elements.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ernest Hemingway’s third novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929), was crafted from his earliest experience with war.

Detailed explanation-4: -The novel was based on Hemingway’s own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The inspiration for Catherine Barkley was Agnes von Kurowsky, a nurse who cared for Hemingway in a hospital in Milan after he had been wounded.

Detailed explanation-5: -A Farewell To Arms is a semi-autobiographic novel because Hemingway did in fact participate in the world war I effort which add even more realism to his work, and as he went thought his own events this affected the way he wrote this novel and his experiences later served as the source material for his novel.