To Use And Use Not: New Edition Of Hemingway's 'A Farewell To Arms' To Be Published With Alternate Endings And Early Drafts

Julie Bosman at the New York Times reports on a new editon of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms.

In an interview in The Paris Review in 1958 Ernest Hemingway made an admission that has inspired frustrated novelists ever since: The final words of “A Farewell to Arms,” his wartime masterpiece, were rewritten “39 times before I was satisfied.”     

                     

Ernest Hemingway's first-page draft for “A Farewell to Arms.”

                         

Those endings have become part of literary lore, but they have never been published together in their entirety, according to his longtime publisher, Scribner. 

      

A new edition of “A Farewell to Arms,” which was originally published in 1929, will be released next week, including all the alternate endings, along with early drafts of other passages in the book.

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