A Farewell to Arms: A Hemingway "Choose Your Own Adventure"

     Ernest Hemingway struggled with the ending of his 1929 novel, A Farewell to Arms.  He wrote 47 endings of the World War I story of an ambulance driver who falls in love with a nurse before he settled on the one that was published.  Now Scribners is releasing a new edition that includes all of the alternate endings.
     According to an article in The New York Times, "Hemingway also left behind a list of alternate titles, which are reprinted in the new edition. They include “Love in War,” “World Enough and Time,” “Every Night and All” and “Of Wounds and Other Causes.” One title, “The Enchantment,” was crossed out by Hemingway."
     The alternate endings have been preserved over the years  in Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.  Hemingway's struggle with the novel is preserved in handwritten pages like this sample of the first page of the novel.

      The alternate endings are interesting in that they show a legendary novelist at work but there is also the question of whether or not one should mess around with a classic.  What do you think?