![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Jordan and Maria fall in love at first. Even the worldly-wise Pilar, in her memories of Finito, reveals traces of a romantic, idealistic outlook on the world. 'A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery. Even though many of the characters in For Whom the Bell Tolls take a cynical view of human nature and feel fatigued by the war, the novel still holds out hope for romantic love. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. ![]() ![]() 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. Published in 1940, Ernest Hemingway’s war novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is set in 1937, near Segovia, during the Spanish Civil War. High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Description for For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway Paperback. ![]()
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