Catalog / A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
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Ernest Hemingway
An American ambulance driver serving in Italy during World War I falls in love with a British nurse. War, love, and disenchantment structure the story.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0684801469
- ISBN-13
- 9780684801469
- ASIN
- 0684801469
Why was A Farewell to Arms challenged?
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1929. The serial publication was banned in Boston in 1929, and the novel was later challenged in American schools.
The catalog records the scope as school. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was A Farewell to Arms banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · School
The serial publication was banned in Boston in 1929, and the novel was later challenged in American schools.
A history of censorship and challenges documented by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is A Farewell to Arms banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1929. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was A Farewell to Arms challenged?
- The serial publication was banned in Boston in 1929, and the novel was later challenged in American schools.
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