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Title: A Farewell to Arms (Cliffs Notes) by Adam Sexton ISBN: 0-7645-8659-9 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 10 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (308 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Touching story
Comment: This was the first time I read a book by hemingway, and I loved it. Don't mistake me...this wasn't an easy read. Hemingway has a style that isn't that easy to adapt to. He uses very simple words and phrases, and is a master at using dialogue. But no matter how you try to argue, a good book is a good book.
This book tells the story of an ambulance driver, Lieutenant Henry, and his love affair with the nurse, Catherine, while being involved with World War One. They suffer many bumps in the road, and we are also shown the bad side of war, and how it is pointless.
This is a wonderful novel. I will definitely try Hemingway again, but only after a little break. Yes he wrote well, but it's not easy reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic romance novel
Comment: Ernest Hemmingway captures both the brutality of war and the tenderness of love in the novel "A Farewell to Arms." Hemmingway does an exceptional job of portraying warfare though due to his own experiences of it during World War I. While Hemmingway does give a great amount of detail about a person's life during war he also does show what effects love can have on their life. He also shows the struggle a young person deals with during times of hardships, which give many meanings. Some of the dialogues in this story seem extremely fake which makes it hard to believe at times.
A young ambulance driver for the Italian Army named Frederic Henry is the story's main character. Early in the novel he meets a beautiful young nurse named Catherine Barkley and quickly falls in love with her. Throughout the rest of the novel Frederic is faced with many troubles trying to survive the war, which he despises, and trying to be with his love, Catherine. The events that occur between those two characters have such meaning behind them that they make up for the rather simple plot. The themes are so realistic that almost anyone who reads them can relate to a sense and will understand Hemmingway's intentions behind them.
I recommend this book to anyone that wants to read a fairly simple yet emotional romance story. This novel appropriately shows the life of a young person affected both by war and love and how their lives are changed forever because of them. This is one of Hemmingway's great novels and anyone who enjoys his style of writing would have trouble setting this book down.
Rating: 4
Summary: Four stars
Comment: In spite of being well written, I take a star away from the book for one single reason: even though I can understand the stressing circumstances under which this love develops, thorughout the novel I felt that Henry was still a shallow man, without the resolve to take a firm course of action. Neither he nor the nurse are very likable, and the novel is permanently permeated by that sense of nothingness, by the nefarious existentialism that influenced much of last century's literature and which, I understand, is a characteristic of much of Hemingway's work. The novel is good but character-development fails and in the end, it is just a sad, crude story. Compare this with the manly, deeply moving attitude of "The Old Man and the Sea"'s main and only human character towards life and you'll appreciate that Hemingway was capable of a better tale.
Also recommended: OLD MAN AND THE SEA and McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD
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Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway ISBN: 0684803356 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ISBN: 0684800713 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway ISBN: 0684801221 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 05 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 0684801523 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0142000663 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 03 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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