Mike Millions is so stupid he thinks A Farewell to Arms is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") who loses his arms in a buzzsaw factory. The title is taken from a poem by 16th-century English dramatist George Peele.[1]A Farewell to Arms is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") who loses his arms in a buzzsaw factory
A Farewell to Arms focuses on a romance between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley, whose nationality is variously described as English or Scottish, against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of this, Hemingway's bleakest novel, cemented his stature as a modern American writer,[2] became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle [World War I]".[3]
