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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

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Author Biography

Name: Ernest Miller Hemingway
Birth Date: July 21, 1898
Death Date: July 2, 1961
Place of Birth: Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Place of Death: Ketchum, Idaho, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Ernest (Miller) Hemingway
18683 words, approx. 62.3 pages
"Any man's life, told truly," Ernest Hemingway wrote in Death in the Afternoon (1932), "is a novel," and he strove to lead a life "better than any picaresque novel you ever read." The mention of his name conjures up a host of images--a cub reporter chasi...
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Biography of Ernest (Miller) Hemingway
17160 words, approx. 57.2 pages
Ernest Hemingway was twenty-two years old when he arrived in Paris in late December 1921. He had taken part in World War I as a volunteer ambulance driver, and after his experiences in Europe during the war he found life in the United States provincial a...
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Biography of Ernest Miller Hemingway
15238 words, approx. 50.8 pages
Ernest Hemingway is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of American writers. He is seen variously as a sensitive and dedicated artist and as a hedonistic adventurer, as a literary poseur and as the stylistic genius of the century. His perso...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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A Farewell to Arms Summary
3,461 words, approx. 12 pages
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. After a brief stint as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, Hemingway joined a volunteer American Red Cross unit as a driver in World War 1. He...
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A Farewell to Arms Information
1,478 words, approx. 5 pages
A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway in 1929. Much of the novel was written at the home of Hemingway's in-laws in Piggott, Arkansas. Considered by many critics to be the greatest war novel of all time, the...


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Women's Feature Service
Farewell to Arms
11/10/2003: 745 words, approx. 3 pages
Pres. Roxas, North Cotabato, (WFS) - At a recently peace forum in the hinterlands here, leaders of the Manobo tribes decided to say no to arms and pursue the path of non-violence. Some indigenous tribes in Philippines have been seriously debating whether to...
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The Boston Globe
Farewell To Arms
06/28/2001: 461 words, approx. 2 pages
CONTINUING violence in North Belfast demonstrates the need for the Good Friday Agreement to be implemented. The Irish Republican Army insists on retaining the capability to kill or terrorize its foes. Unless the IRA shows by its actions that it is committed to peace,...
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AP News
Presidential candidates' fictional taste
5/14/2007: 394 words, approx. 1 pages
Presidential candidates are seeing pieces of themselves in the books they've been reading lately.Barack Obama recently finished "Gilead," a novel about an old man's words to his 7-year-old son. The man, in Gilead, Iowa, believes he's on the verge of death and wants his son...
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The New York Observer
People Who Talk During Movies: Shouldn\'d5t They Be Banned?
7/31/2005: 869 words, approx. 3 pages
When faced, at the movies, with obnoxious fellow audience members who are talking or kicking the back of your chair, you have two basic options (unless, of course, their banter is better than the dialogue onscreen): You can confront them and risk physical injury, or...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Erik Nakjavani
14,201 words, approx. 47 pages
In the following essay, Nakjavani draws upon philosophy, military history, psychoanalysis, and literary theory to consider Hemingway's treatment of the metaphysics and psychology of war in A Farewell to Arms and other works.
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Critical Essay by Ben Stoltzfus
10,701 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Stoltzfus presents a complex analysis of the use of language in A Farewell to Arms, with particular reference to the way in which Hemingway's use of metaphor and shifting pronoun references masks the primal story of Frederic's (and the author's) unconscious separation anxiety.
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Critical Essay by James Phelan
10,199 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Phelan emphasizes the novel's progression in voice which allows Frederic's character to develop gradually into a manifestation of Hemingway's views of the universe.
 
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Great War: Hemingway
2,465 words, approx. 8 pages
A comparatitive essay on Hemingway's "Farewell to Arms" and Charles Harrison's "General's Die in Bed."
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Essay Grade: 92%
Modern Features of "A Farewell to Arms" Viewed Trhrough the Main Characters of the Novel.
2,313 words, approx. 8 pages
Discusses the modern features of "A Farewell to Arms" viewed through the main characters of the novel.

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Essay Grade: 86%
Chapter Summaries of Farewell to Arms
1,919 words, approx. 6 pages
Summarizes all the chapters of the book A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway.
 


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