For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honour tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, Ernest Hemingway travelled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later, he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight" and one of the foremost classics of war literature.

For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades, is attached to an antifascist guerrilla unit in the mountains of Spain. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of a guerrilla leader's last stand, Hemingway creates a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise.

Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, For Whom the Bell Tolls stands as one of the best war novels ever written.