For Whom the Bell Tolls

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'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony Burgess

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**

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780099289821
Published: May 1999

Number of pages: 496
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 29 mm

Publisher: Vintage Publishing