So readers would probably want to know if I have read any of Hemingway’s stories in the past. Long story short, it’s about a guy who’s assigned to blow up a bridge with an antifascist guerrilla group and all the events that occur in the 3-4 days that he’s with them. This is basically the fictionalized version of what Hemingway himself experienced while covering the war as a foreign correspondent for the Northern American Newspaper Alliance. It tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. There are parts that work, and others that don’t work as well.įor Whom the Bell Tolls shows the story of Robert Jordan, a young American from the International Brigades who’s fighting in an antifascist guerrilla unit in the Spanish Civil War. For Whom the Bell Tolls was so successful at the time of its release that it sold over half a million copies and was considered for the Pulitzer Prize ( it didn’t get it because an ex-officio chairman of the board vetoed the jurors’ unanimous choice). His best known titles are The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), The Old Man and the Sea (1952), and the subject of today’s review For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). He also received plenty of accolades for work. He was known for his concise and masculine style of writing. Let’s talk about the man, the myth, the bullfighter – Ernest Hemingway.
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