# A Farewell to Arms

**Author:** Ernest Hemingway
**Grade range:** Grades 11–12
**Age range:** 16–17
**First published:** 1929
**Page count:** 332
**Genre:** Historical Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780684155623`
**ISBN-10:** `0684155621`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-farewell-to-arms
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."

## Themes

- cuentos de guerra
- world war i, 1914-1918
- open library staff picks
- campaigns

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 11-CCR story exemplar](https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 11-CCR story exemplar](https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf)

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