A Farewell to Arms in Never too Late to Read Classics

Mar 18, 2008 Laura rated it really liked it

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From BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama:
Ernest Hemingway's novel, dramatised by Stephen Keyworth.

1/10 Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver for the Italian army, plays courtship games with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse.

2/10 Frederic is injured while seeing to the suppers of his fellow ambulance drivers.

3/10 Frederic and Catherine are reunited in a Milan hospital.

4/10 Frederic has to go back to the war, and Catherine gives him some parting news.

5/10 Frederic takes up with a new ambulance ...more

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Jul 06, 2012 Chrissie rated it really liked it

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On completion: I liked this very much. I enjoy Hemingway’s succinct prose. In all its simplicity you are free to fill in all the hidden thoughts. So much more is said than the few simple words. I find the language perfect for the characters, the time period and the circumstances. Others dislike how sometimes the language used is repetitive. I don’t mind this at all. For me it feels like real people talking. People do talk this way. Maybe because I listened to the audiobook (narrated by John Slat ...more

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Mar 01, 2016 AGB rated it liked it

I am finding it difficult to review or comment on this book. First of all, it is Hemingway and I feel woefully ill-equipped to comment or pass any kind of judgment on him or his writing. That being said, I was not impressed with the writing or the story line in this book. This is not my first or my last Hemingway. I loved The Sun Also Rises and some of his short stories.

I recognize that this book needs to read/understood based upon its context: the Italian campaign of World War I, cynical soldi ...more

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