Today | 20/10/2012
Based on A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A new edition of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms has been published, including for the first time the many alternative endings the author originally considered. The Today programme's Evan Davis spoke to Sean Hemingway to find out what was the purpose of this new edition.
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- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 5'44''
- Broadcast date: 2012
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Literary Resource
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A Farewell to Arms (1932)
In World War I, an American serving as an ambulance driver in Italy falls in love with a nurse in this adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel.
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Hemingway (2021)
Ernest Hemingway enjoys an idyllic childhood in Oak Park, Illinois. Yearning for adventure, he volunteers for the Red Cross during World War I.