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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By Ernest Hemingway

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| Paperback | 9780684803357

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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled 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," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International BContinue

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled 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," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

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  • For Whom the Bell Tolls By Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway said, My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. And that best and simplest way, that tough, terse, two-fisted prose, had a profound and lasting influence on American writing. Hemingway wo ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • I knew this was a book written about the Spanish Civil War but did not know much more about it other than that. I had assumed it was written over the period of the whole war and covered many aspects of the conflict. Only after I'd read it did I realize this story only covers one short part of the ... (continue)

    I knew this was a book written about the Spanish Civil War but did not know much more about it other than that. I had assumed it was written over the period of the whole war and covered many aspects of the conflict. Only after I'd read it did I realize this story only covers one short part of the war and lasts only 4 days. This is the story of an American, Robert Jordan, who has joined with the Republicans to fight the fascists in Spain and his group's efforts to blow up a bridge in support of their cause. The story was very well written and if I could say so is as good as "War and Peace" since it covers and the whole gamut of emotions from romanticism to disillusionment.

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  • Female characters in this novel...

    There aren't any. Female charictitures, yes. But characters...no.

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    Katelyn said on Oct 5, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • I don't think much of Hemingway's writing, but this book went well in conjunction with The First Casualty, The Naked and the Dead, and Hiroshima. (I read them simultaneously.)

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    Missmath144 said on Mar 20, 2008 | Add your feedback

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