A Farewell to Arms & For Whom the Bell Tolls. Ernest Hemingway
Читать онлайн.| Название | A Farewell to Arms & For Whom the Bell Tolls |
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| Автор произведения | Ernest Hemingway |
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| isbn | 4064066499488 |
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms & For Whom the Bell Tolls
World War 1&2 Novels
e-artnow, 2021
Contact: [email protected]
EAN: 4064066499488
Table of Contents
A Farewell to Arms
BOOK I
CHAPTER 1
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.
The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. There was fighting in the mountains