The novel has been adapted a number of times, initially for the stage in 1930 as a film in 1932 and again in 1957, and as a three-part television miniseries in 1966. The book became his first best-seller, and has been called "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I." Its publication ensured Hemingway's place as a modern American writer of considerable stature.
The novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, describes a love affair between the expatriate Henry and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. The title is taken from a poem by the 16th-century English dramatist George Peele. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant ("tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.
A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I.
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