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Introduction © 1987 by Harold Bloom

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Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms.

(Modern critical interpretations)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.

Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom— The novel
as pure poetry / Daniel J. Schneider—Tragic form in
A farewell to arms/ Robert Merrill—[etc.]
1. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Farewell to arms.
2. World War, 1914-1918—Literature and the war.
[1. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Farewell to arms.
2. World War, 1914-1918—Literature and the war.
3. American literature—History and criticism]
1. Bloom, Harold. II. Series.
PS3515.E37F7338 1987 813'.52 87-8056
ISBN 1-55546-044-5