For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Pages

496

Rating

4.10

Year

1940

Description

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...

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'

Endorsements

'A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general' — Sunday Telegraph

'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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