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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929 · Romance, Drama & Literary
On the Italian front of the Great War, an American lieutenant driving ambulances, Frederic Henry, falls in love with an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Between the shelling, the wound, and the long retreat from Caporetto, the two make a separate peace and flee toward Switzerland — but the war is not the only thing that can take everything away. Ernest Hemingway's 1929 masterpiece is one of the great novels of love and war.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 19 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Journey — the map of Frederic's road, from the front to Switzerland.
The Front on the IsonzoThe bare mountain line above the river, its dugouts and shelled roads under the flash of distant artillery — where Frederic Henry is wounded on the night of the bombardment.
A Map of Connections — Frederic Henry among the friends and the war.
The Characters — the people of the war, in medallion.
The Characters — the lovers and their friends, at full length.
Frederic Henry — the American lieutenant.
The Officers' Mess — the priest, Rinaldi, and the wine of Gorizia.
The Hospital in Milan — the summer of the lovers.
This edition
- Title
- A Farewell to Arms
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
- First published
- 1929
- Illustrated plates
- 41 original artworks · 19 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 41 · about 88,832 words
- Reading time
- 5 h 55 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #75201
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