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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway

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Description for For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway Paperback. 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.. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 364.

Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War

'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it'

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...

'A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery ... Read more

'One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce' Observer


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

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099289821
SKU
9780099289821
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, ... Read more

Reviews for For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway
His passionately committed, flawed masterpiece
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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway


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