For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), came off the press in 1940, becoming an immediate success. In one year it sold almost a million copies, and The New York Times called it "the best book Hemingway has written; the most complete, the most profound, the mo...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hardcover Pocket
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), came off the press in 1940, becoming an immediate success. In one year it sold almost a million copies, and The New York Times called it "the best book Hemingway has written; the most complete, the most profound, the most authentic." For Whom the Bell Tolls narrates three days in late May in the life of the American Robert Jordan, who is in the Sierra de Guadarrama with the mission of blowing up a bridge, and during those days he lives with a diverse group of guerrillas ranging from simple and honest peasants and gypsies to irregular outlaws turned combatants. In the novel, Hemingway portrays the guerrillas in their daily individual chores with their harsh life, as challenging as the war itself. They are three days outdoors, enough to bare the human soul, to discover love and at the same time show us the broad scenario of successes and failures that the Spanish Civil War entailed, all with the mastery of an extraordinary narrative technique that places it, without a doubt, as an essential novel of 20th century American literature. Technical detailsPages: 554 Format: 14 x 22 cms. Hardcover About the author |
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