For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
For many, including me, this is considered Hemingway's greatest novel. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American soldier and explosive expert, who is sent to help the antifascist guerrilla movement in the heart of the Spanish mountains. Filled with emotional and thrilling moments, the book is centered on the idea of loyalty, courage, comradery, and love. Torn between his love for the rebel Maria, and the reality of warfare, Jordan needs to find "Hope", even if a blind one.
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**
