num_pages: 480
description: 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.M
language: English
title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
titlecomplete: For Whom the Bell Tolls
characters: Pilar, Anselmo, El Sordo, Maria, Pablo Saler, Robert Jordan
genres: Fiction, War, American, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Spain
ratings_count: 286133
places: Spain
publisher: Scribner Book Company