He deserts the army, returns to Milan, goes on to Stresa, joins now-pregnant Catherine Barkley, and avoids capture by rowing across the lake to Switzerland, where they live an idyllic life until Catherine delivers a still-born child and dies, and Frederic walks back to his hotel in the rain, alone.ġ. When he returns to the front, the war goes badly, and Frederic joins a retreat from Caporetto in which he barely escapes execution at the hands of Italian battle police. Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American assigned to a Red Cross ambulance unit in Italy, is severely wounded on the Austrian front and sent to a hospital in Milan, where he falls in love with his English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Hemingway died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961. The Old Man and the Sea (1952) earned him the Pulitzer Prize and was instrumental in his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. Hemingway became an authority on the subjects of his art: trout fishing, bullfighting, big-game hunting, and deep-sea fishing, and the cultures of the regions in which he set his work - France, Italy, Spain, Cuba, and Africa. His later collections of short stories and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) affirmed his extraordinary career while his highly publicized life gave him unrivaled celebrity as a literary figure. His novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) established Hemingway as the most important and influential fiction writer of his generation. There his fiction career began in 'little magazines' and small presses and led to a volume of short stories, In Our Time (1925). In December of 1921, he sailed to France and joined an expatriate community of writers and artists in Paris while continuing to write for the Toronto Star.

Following recuperation in a Milan hospital, he returned home and became a freelance writer for the Toronto Star. He was severely wounded on the Austrian front on July 9, 1918.

Failing to qualify for the United States Army because of poor eyesight, he enlisted with the American Red Cross to drive ambulances in Italy. After graduation from high school, he moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked briefly for the Kansas City Star. Reading Group Guide for A Farewell to ArmsĮrnest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois.

A farewell to arms audio book