A Farewell to Arms has also been the target of various controversy. Upon its flimsy publication—due to the medium of its release—through Scriber's Magazine, it was banned from Boston newsstands due to accusations of a pornographic nature, despite Hemingway's deliberate exclusion of graphic descriptions of sex, using omission as a literary device. The novel was first adapted for the stage by Laurence Stallings in 1930, then as a film in 1932, with a 1957 remake. A three-part television miniseries was made in 1966. A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World
Who Is Happy in Russia? Who Is Happy in Russia? Who Is Happy in Russia? () is an epic four-part poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, which he started publishing in January 1869, in "Otechestvennye Zapiski". Part four of it, "The Feast for All the World" (1876-1877), remained unfinished. Seven peasants embark upon the eventful journey across the Russian land united by an idea of finding just one happy person. Witnessing nothing but suffering and injustice all around, they are surprised to find that even those supposed to be the masters of the land find life here totally unsatisfactory. Nekrasov started working upon the poem soon after