Farewell to Arms, A

noun

1. a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.

A Farewell to Arms

1. (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

They include William Faulkner’s novel “The Sound and the Fury,” in which he began to perfect his literary style and his gloss on racial and social stratification in his native Mississippi; Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms”; and Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own.”

From Los Angeles Times

When you look back at Hemingway, you make a case that “A Farewell to Arms” is his most well-known book.

From Salon

His first production was an adaptation of Hemingway’s World War I novel “A Farewell to Arms.”

From New York Times

Several older selections, including F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” and Alan Paton’s “Cry, the Beloved Country” were published by Scribner, which Simon & Schuster acquired in 1994.

From Seattle Times

“The piece called ‘Farewell’ was taken from a scene in ‘A Farewell to Arms,’ except I changed the background and a few other things.

From Washington Post