Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls

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 Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, an

Key Information
Authors		Ernest Hemingway
Narrator		Alexander Adams
Professional Reviews
		"If the function of the writer is to reveal reality no one has ever so completely performed it."
Book Editions
		Hardcover - PrebindingOctober 01, 1999Bt Bound8.25"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.26 lbs.9780881036275
First Line
		He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.