For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Hardcover, 443 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 06 Maggio 1945 da Jonathan Cape Publishing (division of Penguin Random House).

Numero OCLC:
1120454830

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This edition was used in the 1940s -50s Saskatchewan, Canada, school system.

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, one of the author’s most famous and widely acclaimed novels. It draws on the author’s own experience as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, and tells the story of Robert Jordan, a demolitions specialist who is sent to blow up a bridge and unexpectedly finds love, comradeship and a greater understanding of humanity in the three days that follow.*

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ha recensito For Whom the Bell Tolls di Ernest Hemingway

A masterpiece

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As a Hemingway die-hard fun, I must say this is for me one his most successful works, alongside Fiesta and a Farewell to Arms. The author perfectly conveys the trauma, the spiritual mangling, the contradictions, the inebitable loss which a civil war, but also describes the lives of those who volunteered to sacrifice their life for the sake of an idea. The driving rhythm of his concise prose makes this book an engaging reading