num_pages: 490
description: 'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony BurgessHigh 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...**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
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: 286172
places: Spain
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random