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
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