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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 330 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of an ambulance driver wounded on the Italian front in World War I, the beautiful British nurse with whom he falls in love, and their journey to find sanctuary in a world gone mad.
Author
Series
Language
English
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" ... [B]oy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl. Ernest Hemingway conveyed this story chronologically, in a strictly linear fashion, with no flashback scenes whatsoever. In fact, the novel contains very little exposition at all. We never learn exactly where its narrator and protagonist, the American ambulance driver Frederic Henry, came from, or why he enlisted in the Italian army to begin with. (For that matter, we read chapter after chapter...
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
©1997.
Physical Desc
5 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides quick, accurate answers to hundreds of question about the historical background and setting of 300 often-studied literary works, including novels, plays, poems, speeches and short stories.
Contains profiles of three hundred notable literary works written from ancient times through the end of the twentieth century, relating them to the historical context in which they were written and in which they are set; arranged alphabetically by title...
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