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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

Published1940
Pages480
Open Library3.6 / 5
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Excerpt

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.

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  • United States

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Subjects

  • Spain in fiction
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Spanish Civil War
  • Americans
  • open_syllabus_project
  • Guerrilla warfare
  • Foreign Participation
  • Novelas españolas
  • Military participation

People

  • Robert Jordan
  • Maria

Times & places

  • 1936-1939
  • Civil War, 1936-1939
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