For Whom the Bell Tolls
Scribner · Print & ebook · July 25, 2002
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- Who it’s for
- A compact invitation to Hemingway’s world, with enough texture to reward repeat visits.
- Genres
- War Fiction, The Classics, Literary Fiction
- Published
- Scribner, July 25, 2002
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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.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades, is 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 a guerilla leader’s last stand, Hemingway creates a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author’s previous works, For Whom the Bell Tolls stands as one of the best war novels ever written.
A Classics Entry
A compact invitation to Hemingway’s world, with enough texture to reward repeat visits.
Come here for
- a Classics foothold into Hemingway’s orbit
- layered reading you can dip into daily
Expect
- literary context over summary
- an entry point that assumes you want the reference, not the recap
Where it sits
| War Fiction | 78% |
|---|---|
| The Classics | 63% |
| Literary Fiction | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Literary Fiction
- War Fiction
- Authors
- Ernest Hemingway, Campbell Scott, Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Published
- July 25, 2002
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics