A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayIn 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came his early masterpiece, A Farewell to Arms. In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and brutal honesty. A love story of

But the workings of the institutions and of the culture that underpinned it - a shame-industrial complex - have long been cloaked in secrecy and silence

add a dash of the supernatural

Since then it has become an established part of Ireland's theatrical canon

told by one of Ireland's leading writers for young people

intimates since childhood

and that's the eeriest detail of all

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An ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the stifling summer of 1348

and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour

As she traces her path from Irish immigrant to war correspondent and activist to eventually becoming the youngest-ever US Ambassador to the United Nations

But the capital proves unforgiving

as award-winning artist Emily Sutton's magnificent illustrations capture