For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Ernest Hemingway
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 to 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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Author
Ernest Hemingway
Pages
501
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2014-05-22
ISBN
1476770115 9781476770116
Ratings
Google: 4
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"it was pretty good, although a little slow. Hemingway does an amazing job of creating and keeping suspense, and fostering a strong connection between the readers and Robert Jordan - I feel like I know him well! it was kind of heartbreaking, though. it definitely didn't end the way I thought it would, and I don't know which ending I would have preferred. Maria and RJ are the sweetest couple, even if they're jeopardized at every turn. also, I enjoy how Pilar is a strong Spanish woman in a novel set in the '30s! "
Rowan McCrindle
"Love this book!"
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Tyson Fitzgerald
"Once again, Hemingway complicates a story of war with elements of friendship, love, and nature to capture the essence of man's responsibility to the world, mankind, and himself. Although A Farewell to Arms is perhaps the slightly superior work, all the elements that make it one of Hemingway's masterpieces are present in this novel as well. He experiments with tone and diction to relay the different languages spoken by the characters, all while keeping the dialogue accessible to the English reader. In the modernist techniques of stream-of-consciousness and quickly shifting perspectives, one feels in tune with the emotions of each player in the narrative. The characters live on with the reader long after the final page. After closing the book, we limp through the pain of our broken leg, mourn the deaths of our comrades in battle, and feel our "heart[s] beating against the pine needle floor of the forest.""
Jacob Longini
"Hemingway being Hemingway."
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Derek Boemler
"It's a classic!"
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Guillermo Sandoval
"9/10"
Lil-Farrah
""the woman started to curse in a flood of obscene invective that rolled over and around him like the hot white water splashing down from the sudden eruption of a geyser." My first Hemingway novel. Will not be my last."
Brandon Frederick
"Quintessential Hemingway. Slow, sets the scene, develops the character, builds the plot, then breaks your heart in 75 directions as it closes, and leaves thinking for days."
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Ryan Dix