A collection of nine critical essays on Hemingway's World War I novel arranged in chronological order of publication.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- The novel as pure poetry / Daniel J. Schneider -- Tragic form in A farewell to arms / Robert Merrill -- A farewell to arms / William Adair -- Going back / Michael S. Reynolds -- Hemingway's "resentful cryptogram" / Judith Fetterley -- The sense of an ending in A farewell to arms / Bernard Oldsey -- Frederic Henry's escape and the pose of passivity / Scott Donaldson -- Pseudoautobiography and personal metaphor / Millicent Bell -- Catherine Barkley and the Hemingway code / Sandra Whipple Spanier.