In 1918, Ernest Hemingway volunteered for belligerent Europe and became the driver of the American Red Cross detachment on the Italian-Austrian front. In July 1918, Hemingway was seriously wounded and hospitalized for treatment. There he fell in love with an American sister of mercy, and ten years later, this love story, as well as the writer’s military experience, formed the basis of the novel A Farewell to Arms, which tells the story of the tragic love of an American officer and an English nurse. They met at the front in Italy and fell in love at first sight. But, unfortunately, their love had no future …
Performed by: Sergei Chonishvili
Copyright © 1929 by Charles Scribner`s Sons
Copyright renewed © 1957 by Ernest Hemingway
© Translated by E. Kalashnikov (heirs) © & ℗ IE Vorobiev V.A.
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