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A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 1929

The novel where Hemingway's iceberg theory fails to suppress the grief beneath. Lieutenant Henry's retreat from Caporetto and his love for Catherine Barkley produce the most devastating final paragraphs in American fiction. War makes everything meaningless. Love makes it worse. Published in 1929.

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