... sit in his father's lap. His serious reading began at twelve with a collection of biographies titled The Genius of Solitude. A book of natural history followed, which he tried unsuccessfully to locate years later for his children (Contemporary Authors, 25). During adolescence, L"Amour immersed himself in books of chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and the history of aircraft. His concentrated self-education resulted in boredom with school. L"Amour left school ... in their sex and nobody appears to be having a good time" (Long 265). When he died, two hundred million copies of his books were...

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Religion in A Farewell to Arms For hundreds of years, writers have used religion as a principle issue and point of discussion in their novels. Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed his views in The Scarlet Letter, Garcia Marquez did the same in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Ernest Hemingway used his writing to develop his own ideas concerning the church. This is fully evident in his novel A Farewell to Arms. ... Even in a book in which the large majority of the characters profess their ... atheism, the ideas of the church materialize repeatedly as both characters and as topics ... ...

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