A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Introduced by Colm Tóibín Illustrated by Anne-Marie Jones

‘A most beautiful, moving and humane book’ VITA SACKVILLE-WEST

With the publication of A Farewell to Arms in , Ernest Hemingway not only coined a new literary style, but also produced one of the th century’s most affecting war novels. In February , The Folio Society publishes the definitive edition for the st century, one that both celebrates and emulates Hemingway’s deceptively simple style. This beautifully illustrated volume is introduced by Colm Tóibín, who writes that Hemingway’s prose is ‘not like writing at all, with no sense of a writer at a desk attempting to create an illusion, but something that had been there already, in place before there was any writerly intrusion’. The language, distilled to its basic elements, is free from over-embellished sentiment and unnecessary detail. Yet between the words he hides the heart-wrenching passions of love and the abject foolishness of war: beauty and violence spring from mundanity when least expected. In his first bestseller, Hemingway chronicles the experiences of Frederic Henry, an American serving on the Italian Front as an ambulance driver in , and his love affair with a beautiful English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Moulded from Hemingway’s own experiences on the Italian Front, Frederic’s narrative resembles a memoir, mirroring the author’s lifelong quest for the most ‘truthful’ form of the written word. Award-winning illustrator Anne-Marie Jones has produced nine striking images. With broad, deliberate brush strokes, she exposes the heart of Hemingway’s remarkable prose.

Product information Three-quarter-bound in buckram with a Modigliani paper front board, printed with a design by Anne-Marie Jones. Set in Guardi with Gill Sans display. 320 pages. Frontispiece and 8 colour illustrations. 9" x 6¼". • UK £39.95 US $69.95 Can $79.95 Aus $84.95 Publication date 11 February 2015