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- Paul RussellInterview
Around age 16 I read A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway, which I found a powerful and absorbing work (with a lot of pathos). I think that an intelligent teenager will enjoy this book and is old enough to appreciate its themes and concerns. At age 25 I would suggest The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It…
- Mark BowdenInterview
At sixteen I would give myself books that exemplify good, simple storytelling. Anything by Elmore Leonard, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. At 25 I would give Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, For Whom the Bell Tolls by…
- Jason Y. NgInterview
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. It was the first American classic I read in depth and paid close attention to every symbol, theme and motif in it. I became a different reader after that.
- A Brief History of Ernest HemingwayArticle
After the success of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway released his novel, A Farewell to Arms, in 1929. A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during World War I. The novel tells the story of Frederic Henry, an American soldier serving in the Italian army, and his love affair with Catherine Barkley…
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