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Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
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„Im Westen nichts Neues‘
. Universal-Film
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house ın 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 afterwards 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
and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery. In the dark ıt was Ilıke
summer lightning, but the nights were cool and there was not the feeling of a storm
coming. :
Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns
going past pulled by motor-tractors. There was much traffic at night and many mules
on the roads with boxes of ammunition on each side of their pack-saddles and grey
motor-trucks that carrıed men, and other trucks with loads covered with canvas that
moved slower in the traffic. "There were big guns too that passed ın the day drawn
by tractors, the long barrels of the guns covered with green branches and green leafy
branches and vines laid over the tractors. To the north we could look across a valley
and see a forest of chestnut trees and behind it another mountain on this side of the
river. There was figh ting forthat mountain too, but it was not successful, and in the
fall when the rains came the leaves all fell from the chestnut trees and the branches
were bare and the trunks black with rain. 'The vineyards were thin and hare-
branched too and all the country wet and brown and dead with the autumn. "There
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. Universal-Film
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house ın 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 afterwards 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
and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery. In the dark ıt was Ilıke
summer lightning, but the nights were cool and there was not the feeling of a storm
coming. :
Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns
going past pulled by motor-tractors. There was much traffic at night and many mules
on the roads with boxes of ammunition on each side of their pack-saddles and grey
motor-trucks that carrıed men, and other trucks with loads covered with canvas that
moved slower in the traffic. "There were big guns too that passed ın the day drawn
by tractors, the long barrels of the guns covered with green branches and green leafy
branches and vines laid over the tractors. To the north we could look across a valley
and see a forest of chestnut trees and behind it another mountain on this side of the
river. There was figh ting forthat mountain too, but it was not successful, and in the
fall when the rains came the leaves all fell from the chestnut trees and the branches
were bare and the trunks black with rain. 'The vineyards were thin and hare-
branched too and all the country wet and brown and dead with the autumn. "There
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