“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.” Chapter 1: Return from the Front The novel […]
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A Farewell to Arms
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” Book One The novel opens during World War I, where Frederic Henry, an American ambulance […]
American literature
The Sun Also Rises
“You are all a lost generation.”— Gertrude Stein (epigraph) Chapter 1: Paris and Jake Barnes The novel opens with Jake Barnes, an American expatriate and journalist living in […]