A Farewell to Arms
American novelist, 1899–1961. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.
A Farewell to Arms is a 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway.
In war novels
On 2 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- First published
- 1929
- Length
- 304 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- War novels, Love story
Is A Farewell to Arms worth reading?
2 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it: 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library) and The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 74 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 85 | See the list |
Best edition of A Farewell to Arms
The edition we link to is the Arrow paperback (1994), 304 pages.
- Publisher
- Arrow (paperback, 1994)
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9780099910107
How critics, prizes and readers rate A Farewell to Arms
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 19% of the points available on critics' lists, against 0% on prize lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like A Farewell to Arms
If you liked A Farewell to Arms, try The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises or For Whom the Bell Tolls.
