Literary Series: If All Baxter County Read the Same Book

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Read A Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayGuest Speaker, Dr. Adam Long, Associate Director and Facilities Manager of the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott, AR will present information on Ernest Hemingway and background information on his book A Farewell to Arms and how it relates to Arkansas.

A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant ("tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The novel describes a love affair between the expatriate Henry and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley.