{"product_id":"a-farewell-to-arms-scribner-classics-9780684837888","title":"A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive edition of the classic World War I romance novel  featuring all of the alternate endings: Fascinatingserves as an artifact of a bygone craft  with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out  giving readers a sense of an authors process (The New York Times).  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 tragic story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.  Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield frontlinesweary  demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertionthis gripping  semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.  Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all the alternative endings together for the first time  along with early drafts of other essential passages  offering new insight into Hemingways craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.  Featuring Hemingways own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel  a personal foreword by the authors son Patrick Hemingway  and a new introduction by the authors grandson Sen Hemingway  this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67598763753525,"sku":"ByrdShop_0684837889","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780684837888.jpg?v=1790932081","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-farewell-to-arms-scribner-classics-9780684837888","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}