July 16, 2012

Caroline's Book Reviews

A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library EditionA Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition by Ernest Hemingway
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This Hemingway Library Edition hardcover is a good choice for your library, if you still maintain one. There is something to be said for longevity both of any selected work of literature and of any reader.

Having studied Hemingway relentlessly in the past, this reading was pure joy, a mini-vacation from the writers of today. It was fun to get into Papa's head a little via his early drafts and the alternative endings. Time well spent.





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