{"product_id":"a-farewell-to-arms-9798212633659","title":"A Farewell to Arms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunningly designed, new hardcover collectible edition of Hemingway's enduring classic, with full-color illustrations of iconic scenes from the novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong considered one of the best American novels of our time, \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/i\u003e is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver and his passionate affair with a beautiful English nurse. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this gripping, semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war as only Hemingway can. A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/i\u003e paints an intimate portrait of the pain and intensity of a love overshadowed by the inexorable creep of global war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHemingway, Ernest:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErnest Hemingway\u003c\/strong\u003e (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, \u003cem\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/em\u003e. He also wrote \u003cem\u003eFarewell to Arms, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e, the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat. He also wrote short stories that are collected in \u003cem\u003eMen Without Women \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.\u003c\/em\u003e Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51184917741842,"sku":"9798212633659","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be4080e4-25d5-468f-9b33-fed2c5cb5ea1.jpg?v=1774963484","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-farewell-to-arms-9798212633659","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}