For Whom the Bell Tolls
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony Burgess
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge.
'The best book Hemingway has written' New York Times
The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess - Anthony Burgess
Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels...
A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general - Sunday Telegraph
One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce - Observer
One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World
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Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls is widely praised for its powerful depiction of the Spanish Civil War, presenting a committed narrative that explores themes of death, ideology, and war's brutality. Critics admire its world-weary meditation on such profound topics, with some finding the book both politically and militarily insightful. Acclaimed as a masterpiece, it has inspired readers with its technique and storytelling craft, with many considering it Hemingway's finest work.

Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780099289821
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 May 1999
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 29.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 343g
Pages: 496
About the Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.
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