For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780684830483)

Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honor tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

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," and one of the foremost classics of war literature in history.

Published in 1940, For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. 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, For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. When it was first published, The New York Times called it "a tremendous piece of work," and it still stands today as one of the best war novels of all time.

Author: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN-10: 0684830485
ISBN-13: 9780684830483
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 06/10/1996
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.50w x 1.52d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 28
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 12783 / For Whom the Bell Tolls


Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 08/11/2008 pg. 45