A Farewell to Arms Audiobook By Ernest Hemingway cover art

A Farewell to Arms

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: John Slattery
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $19.49

Buy for $19.49

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel
The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.

Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto, of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized, is one of the greatest moments in literary history.

A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.

©1929 Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright renewed 1957 Ernest Hemingway (P)2006 Simon & Schuster Inc. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc. Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction War & Military War Heartfelt Military

Featured Article: 65+ Quotes About Love from Much-Loved Authors


While saying "I love you" speaks volumes, there are times when you yearn to express your feelings for a loved one—whether a cherished friend, serious crush, or your soul mate—in a way that's more creative, more eloquent, more memorable...in a word: quotable. For those times, there's no better source to turn to than great authors. We've collected some of most tender, most romantic, and most passionate quotes from the world's most-loved authors.

Featured Article 65+ Quotes About Love from Much Loved Authors
Timeless Classic • Moving Love Story • Masterful Accent Portrayal • Distinct Character Voices • Vivid War Descriptions
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
John Slattery did an excellent job in narrating the book. I had read "The Modern Scholar: WW1" by John Ramsden and he Listed "A Farewell To Arms" on the reading list and said it covered the fighting between Italy and Austria in WWI. But I was disappointed because there was very little information about the war and was primarily a love story. I am not sure why Ramsden list this book on his reading list. I have enjoyed other Hemingway book so maybe my disappointment was in my expectations.

Not what I expected

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I liked the reader. He didn't drone me to sleep. It was very easy to listen along and he read at just the right pace. And his voice isn't obnoxious.

Easy listening

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Narrator was excellent. HEMINGWAY'S classic profound metaphor of WWI told in narrators voice about his one true love, Kat.

WWI Love Story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great story until the end. The ending was greatly dragged out and boring, with much of it degrading the emotional ending.

Good until the end.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
To say the story is good seems a superfluous waste: I mean, it's Hemingway at his best. Duh.
What blew me away was the narrator. John Slattery nails it: American accents, English accents, Italian accents, males, females -- unreal. At times, it was difficult to believe this is all one person.

Great novel; spectacular narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
What a moving story. Loved every moment. Even the painful parts. This one will stay with me always.

Masterpiece

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Would you consider the audio edition of A Farewell to Arms to be better than the print version?

Yes, it's important to read this novel carefully.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Catherine, she's sympathetic and thoughtful.

Which character – as performed by John Slattery – was your favorite?

Catherine, she comes alive in this reading by Slattery.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The whole novel is moving.

Beautiful, heartbreaking

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I hesitate to attempt a review of such a classic work. I shall only say that after listening to this book I attempted to speak for an entire day without using a contraction or passive voice. It was enlightening.

You will speak differently for days.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Loved the story. Lots of full characters and exceptional writing. And this narrator! Whatever I listen to next will be with his voice, he gave me a n

My god!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

What did you like best about A Farewell to Arms? What did you like least?

The love story and descriptions of life in WWI Italy.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Most interesting - how was the love story going to end?
Least interesting - detailed updates from the "front".

Have you listened to any of John Slattery’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No.

Did A Farewell to Arms inspire you to do anything?

Reconfirm my desire to visit Italy.

Dragged on, just like World War I.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews