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Farewell to Arms, A
noun
- a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
A Farewell to Arms
- (1929) A novel by Ernest Hemingway , set in World War I . An American soldier and an English nurse fall in love; he deserts to join her, and she dies in childbirth.
Example Sentences
"Adios a las Armas," or "Farewell to Arms," a finalist in a government competition in July for non-violent video games, aims to raise awareness about a peace deal being negotiated in Cuba which voters will back or reject in a referendum.
Cathedral Dean Gary Hall will lead a discussion of Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms,” a novel set in Italy during World War I and based on the author’s wartime experiences.
Agnes von Kurowsky, his World War I nurse, became Catherine in A Farewell to Arms; a hard-drinking English aristocrat, Lady Duff Twysden, turned up as Lady Brett in The Sun Also Rises; the aging colonel's lissome contessa in Across the River and Into the Trees is a highly romanticized version of 19-year-old Adriana Ivancich, an Italian beauty whom the Hemingways knew in Venice in 1949.
The report that Paramount had given A Farewell to Arms a happy ending has more truth in it.
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