For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls is Hemingway’s response to his news coverage of the Spanish civil war. One of the great books to emerge from the good fight this book tells the story of a man in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerrilla unit in the mountains of Spain.
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Format: 10th paperback printing
Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine creases, long crease at top front corner.
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Publishing Info: Collier, New York
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9780020518501
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the Spanish civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed one of the greatest novels 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 guerrilla 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 and in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway attempts to 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 to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it."
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