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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Name: For Whom the Bell Tolls
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Paperback – July 1, 1995

by Ernest Hemingway (Author)

"It’s my favorite novel of all time. It instructed me to see the world as it is, with all its corruption and cruelty, and believe it’s worth fighting for anyway, even dying for." (John McCain)

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.

Review

"It’s my favorite novel of all time. It instructed me to see the world as it is, with all its corruption and cruelty, and believe it’s worth fighting for anyway, even dying for." (John McCain)

"A tremendous piece of work." (The New York Times)

“For Whom the Bell Tolls is 1) a great Hemingway love story; 2) a tense story of adventure in war; 3) a grave and sombre tragedy of Spanish peasants fighting for their lives.” (Time)

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Series: Scribner Classics
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Scribner (July 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684803356
ISBN-13: 978-0684803357
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Paperback – July 1, 1995

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