San Antonio College Library

Discusses Hemingway's labor over the novel that became "A Farewell to Arms," including his various attempts at the beginning, his 42 versions of an ending, and his choice of a title.

When first published in 1929, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms was decried as a vulgar novel, and was actually banned in Boston. In his extensive introduction, Scott Donaldson explains this initial reception, and then traces the change in perception toward the novel. The essays in this collection show that Farewell was a revolutionary novel that has only now begun to be understood -- sixty years after publication. Sandra Spanier demonstrates...