For whom the bell tolls
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-19612005
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Hemingway's classic portrayal of the Spanish Civil War, seen through the eyes of an American fighting on the Republican side, captures the excitement and danger of war in a way few other works of fiction have been unable to do. 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 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**
Main title:
For whom the bell tolls / Ernest Hemingway.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 1999.
Collation:
504 p. ; 20 cm.
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ISBN:
9780099289821 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.52
LC class:
PS3515.E37
Language:
English
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BRN:
184441