‘a Farewell To Arms’ With Hemingway’s Alternate Endings

Scribner is publishing a new edition of “A Farewell to Arms” that will include dozens of Ernest Hemingway’s alternate endings... In an interview in The Paris Review in 1958 Ernest Hemingway made an admission that has inspired frustrated novelists ever since: The final words of “A Farewell to Arms,” his wartime masterpiece, were rewritten “39 times before I was satisfied.”