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Category:LiteratureLiterary FictionLiterary Fiction-Lfi
Publisher: Ilqa Publications | ISBN: 9789696400875 | Pages: 507

Whom the Bell Tolls reveals the story of Robert Jordan, a young American dynamiter, who volunteered to fight in the International Brigades against Franco. Waiting for the right time to blow up an important bridge while living amid a guerilla unit in the pine forests of Spanish Sierra he meets beautiful Maria and falls in love with her. But he will have to wait to be permanently with her until the end of his mission. Hemingway had a penchant for war stories and a natural talent to turn them into masterpieces. He wrote many enduring tales in the genre. In For Whom the Bell Tolls he outshined even his earlier work. Whatever there is in a war is palpable in it, but with a touch of Hemingway.

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway was born in the USA in 1899. He led a diverse life. He chose a career in journalism in his early life, participated in both World Wars, covered the Greco-Turkish and the Spanish Civil Wars, sailed the Caribbean and lived in four continents. During his stay in Paris, he became a part of the American expatriate circle of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound. F Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford. He made good use of his multifarious life experience in his writings and penned many great novels and short stories. In 1954, he was awarded the bel Prize in Literature. t many years later, he committed suicide in 1961.