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A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: John Slattery
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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.

Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto, of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized, is one of the greatest moments in literary history.

A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.

©1929 Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright renewed 1957 Ernest Hemingway (P)2006 Simon & Schuster Inc. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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Dull narrator

Extremely poor reading. No intonation. Boring and difficult to follow. Don't waste your money on this narrator.

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Captivating Classic, Perfect Delivery

John Slattery had the perfect cadence, and the perfect intonation to bring The Papa’s words to life. Slattery’s reading is exactly how I would imagine Ernest Hemingway writing this prose. I haven’t read this book since college, but the story is so captivating. Bravo! I highly recommend the Audible version.

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Great performance of a classic

Had to get through this for a book club and I’m so glad I chose the audiobook. Mr Slattery did a superb job of reading and performing what would have been a slog for me to read. If you have to get through Hemingway look no further.

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Awesome narrator

The narrator was able to keep distinct voices for every character. It really flushed out the story.

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Something special

Wow. The Story is pulling. The history is so interesting and the narrator I really grew to like. The way this is narrated works to perfectly portray the character in my mind. Overall a masterpiece but very painful.

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Fantastic book. Fantastic narrator.

John Slattery provides an exceptional reading of a farewell to arms. His delivery is poignant, and very clear. I wish every narrator was good as he is. I wish the narrator had done more classics, because I actually wound up looking to see what else he had done, but the other books are not ones I’m interested in. Definitely the version to get, other than the extremely strange redaction of curse words. Last time I checked it was a book about war, so you would figure cussing I wouldn’t offend too many people.

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The Story is Good, Not the Recording

Narrator is boring, same voice for all Italians. pretty sure some words are censored out.

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Unique

Ernest Hemingway has a very unique writing style that seems to be pretty hit or miss. I do not know if I would have enjoyed this book without it being read aloud. The story is as much a love story as it is a war story.

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A Classic but tragic book

A Farewell to Arms is a classic which ends tragically. An American ambulance driver who fought in Italy with Italian troops experienced war and falls in love with a British nurse. I wad hoping that it would end happily for the couple, but the baby they were hoping to have dies at the end and his wife dies in childbirth.

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good take on the classic book

I read A Farewell to Arms when I was younger. hearing the audio book was great. there are also some unexpected twists and turns, for example their lack of knowledge about when the War would end. similar to The Naked and the dead, it's fictionalized fact about the war, as Hemingway experience it first-hand.

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