Ernest Hemingway
A farewell to arms
Lieutenant Frederic Henry deserts the Italian army, reunites with Catherine Barkley and they flee by night across Lake Maggiore to neutral Switzerland.
They settle in the Montreux area and Catherine carries their child to term.
After a prolonged labor requiring Caesarean section the infant is stillborn and Catherine dies from postpartum hemorrhage.
In our time
A sequence of short vignettes depicts soldiers, matadors and civilians confronting violence, injury, displacement and failed intimacies. The prose is stark and sensory, emphasizing physical detail, abrupt brutality and stoic endurance.
Men without women
A selection of short stories depicting stoic men confronting danger, defeat, and loneliness—in bull‑rings, hospitals, cafés, and boxing rings.
Recurring themes: courage and decline, the aftermath of war, fraught intimacy, and petty violence.
Hemingway’s spare prose captures brief, intense moments of dignity, failure, and longing.