A farewell to arms

by Ernest Hemingway · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 4 · 6,170 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Man-woman relationships — Fiction · Military deserters — Fiction · Military hospitals — Fiction · Soldiers — United States — Fiction

Words worth knowing: spinner · unscrew · malaria · woodcock · slush · steeply · rinse · articulation

[Cover Illustration] BOOKS BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY A FAREWELL TO ARMS MEN WITHOUT WOMEN THE SUN ALSO RISES THE TORRENTS OF SPRING IN OUR TIME A FAREWELL TO ARMS A FAREWELL TO ARMS By ERNEST HEMINGWAY NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1929 COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Printed in the United States of America TO G. A. PFEIFFER

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.

In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels.

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