Hemingway's multiple endings for 'Farewell to Arms' published in new edition

London, July 11 (ANI): A new edition of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel 'A Farewell to Arms' with 47 alternate endings, has been published in the US for the first time.

The book published by Scribner, went on sale on Tuesday, the BBC reported.

Hemingway had famously revealed that he had re-written the ending 39 times to get the words right, although the actual figure had been 47.

His semi-autobiographical work is a love story set against the backdrop of the Italian campaigns of World War I.

The latest American edition of the book will also include early drafts of other passages and Hemingway's own 1948 introduction to an illustrated re-issue of the novel.

Hemingway's wartime experiences had heavily influenced his writing.here is also a personal foreword by the author's son, Patrick, and a new introduction by the writer's grandson, Sean.

The author was a Nobel Prize winner, whose other works included 'The Old Man and The Sea' and 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'. (ANI)