For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway - Softcover

Hemingway, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099289822 ISBN 13: 9780099289821

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 1999

Synopsis

'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. 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...

**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

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Review:

"One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce" (Observer)

"A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general, and the Spanish civil war in particular" (Sunday Telegraph)

"For Whom the Bell Tolls allowed us to actually see the experience of an irregular struggle, from the political and military point of view...That book became a familiar part of my life. And we always went back to it, consulted it, to find inspiration" (Fidel Castro Observer)

"I read as a kid, of course, but it didn't get me like that till I read For Whom the Bell Tolls. I was very taken with that book. I still reread sections, though I'm now reading it not for the thrill of the story but for the technique and craft of it." (Gene Wilder Daily Mail)

"The best book Hemingway has written" (New York Times)

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About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0099289822
• ISBN 13: 9780099289821
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496