A Farewell to Arms

By Ernest Hemingway

Love. War. Fate. Loss. A timeless masterpiece from one of America’s greatest literary voices.

Set against the harrowing backdrop of World War I, A Farewell to Arms tells the unforgettable story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver in the Italian army, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. Their passionate, forbidden love unfolds in the shadow of chaos and destruction—a brief, luminous shelter from the brutality surrounding them.

As the war intensifies and the lines between heroism and futility blur, Hemingway explores the profound cost of love and the haunting fragility of human connection. With his signature spare prose and unsentimental clarity, he delivers a novel that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.

Widely regarded as Hemingway’s greatest novel, A Farewell to Arms remains one of the definitive literary portraits of love threatened by history. Its final pages—still among the most devastating endings in modern fiction—linger long after the book is closed.