- novel is a powerful expose of the life and values of the Lost Generation, a generation deeply scarred by WWI
- main characters are Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley
- Barnes suffers an injury during WWI that makes him unable to consummate his relationship with Brett sexually
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an anti-fascist guerilla unit in the mountains during the Spanish Civil War
- as an expert in the use of explosives, he is given an assignment to blow up a bridge to accompany a simultaneous attack on the city of Segovia
- behind enemy lines while with the guerrilla band of Pablo, he meets Maria, whose life has been shattered by the outbreak of war
- Pablo's unwillingness to commit to the operation clashes with Jordan's strong sense of duty, while Jordan's sense of duty clashes with his newfound love for life caused by the presence of Maria
A Farewell to Arms
- tells the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army during WWI
- Henry falls in love with the English nurse Catherine Barkley
- After he is wounded at the front by a trench mortar shell, she tends to him in the hospital during his recuperation.
- Their romance, however, ends abruptly when Henry must return to the fron, where he narrowly escapes death at the hands of fanatical Italian soldiers.
- Henry finds Catherine and, after a sojourn in an Italian resort, the couple flee to Switzerland on the eve of Henry's arrest for deserting.
- In Switzerland, their child is born dead and Catherine dies shortly due to hemorrhage.
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