A Farewell to Arms section as Hemingway was writing the scene about Catherine Barkley's childbirth. The novel was first serialized in "Scribner's Magazine" in the May 1929 to October 1929 issues. The book was published in September 1929 with a first edition print-run of approximately 31,000 copies. The success of "A Farewell to Arms" made Hemingway financially independent. "The Hemingway Library Edition" was released in July 2012, with a dust jacket facsimile of the first edition. The newly published edition presents an appendix with the many alternate endings Hemingway wrote for the novel in addition to pieces from early draft manuscripts. The JFK Library
Farewell to the mountains religion and divine providence, that is The Betrothed's "fil rouge" (the author writes that God disturbs his sons' joy to donate them, at the end, a bigger joy). Farewell to the mountains Farewell to the mountains or, in Italian, , is a famous passage of the VIII chapter of "The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni. Lucia and Renzo are escaping from their native village by barge because don Rodrigo wants to force the young woman to marry him; Lucia sees the place where she used to live and the suitor's castle, so she grieves and begins to cry. Manzoni reports Lucia's