{"product_id":"penguin-classics-deluxe-editionisbn-9780143138839","title":"Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collectible hardcover edition of Hemingway’s beloved novel of doomed love during wartime, with a new foreword by Abraham Verghese, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCutting for Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Vitae Edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmid the horrors of the Italian front in World War I, American ambulance driver Frederic Henry and English nurse Catherine Barkley fall hopelessly in love. For Frederic, the nurse’s kindness and beauty are an anchor against the carnage; for Catherine, the ambulance driver is a lifeboat in the sea of grief for her first love. But even their passion is not enough to forestall the battle lines that creep ever closer with each Italian loss, and as the chaos and tragedy of war threaten their love, Frederic and Catherine must face the fragile nature of their humanity head-on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his signature spare prose, Hemingway draws from his own experience as an ambulance driver in World War I to evoke the horrors of war with brutal precision. \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/i\u003e, his first bestseller, is a masterful portrayal of humanity in all its highs and lows that secures Hemingway’s place among the foremost authors of American literature.\u003cb\u003eErnest Hemingway\u003c\/b\u003e (1889-1961) wrote in a clear, spare, deceptively simple style that made him one of the most admired and imitated authors of the twentieth century. Born in Chicago, he traveled widely throughout his life, living in Italy, France, Spain, and Cuba, and reporting from the frontlines of World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. His best-known novels are \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea,\u003c\/i\u003e which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. A year later Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbraham Verghese\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the author of the multimillion-copy \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCutting for Stone\u003c\/i\u003e as well as Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2016 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303024283877,"sku":"NP9780143138839","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/penguin-classics-deluxe-editionisbn-9780143138839","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}