A Farewell to Arms dictionary–held upside down. The Italian translation had in fact already been prepared illegally in 1943 by Fernanda Pivano, leading to her arrest in Turin. A Farewell to Arms was met with favorable criticism and is considered one of Hemingway's best literary works. Gore Vidal wrote of the text: "... a work of ambition, in which can be seen the beginning of the careful, artful, immaculate idiocy of tone that since has marked ... [Hemingway's] prose." The last line of the 1929 "New York Times" review reads: "It is a moving and beautiful book." However, since publication, A Farewell to Arms
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (collection) in 2003 under the title Paycheck and Other Classic Stories. The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (collection) The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Citadel Twilight in 1990 and reprints Volume I of "The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick". Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines "Fantasy and Science Fiction", "Planet Stories", "If", "Galaxy Science Fiction", "Imagination", "Space Science Fiction", "Fantastic Story Magazine", "Amazing Stories", "Future", "Cosmos", "Fantasy Fiction", "Beyond Fantasy Fiction", "Thrilling Wonder Stories"