For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hardcover)

from skavlanj

A Book With Bad Reviews Maybe the reviewers judged this book by Hemingway's other novels, which are certainly better. But this is a good book. For Whom The Bell Tolls starts slowly, and stays that way for about half the book. It meanders through two days of Robert Jordan preparing to blow up a ...

from mikedraper

In 1937 at the peak of the Spanish Civil War with the guerrillas fighting against the Facist government in Spain, Robert Jordan meets with a group of guerrillas. Jordan is a dynamiter who had been sent to blow up a bridge. With the men who make up the freedom fighters a man named Pablo appears to...

from Cecilturtle

What struck me most in this novel was the language. Hemingway of course is known for his journalistic style, but there it was his willingness to mirror the Spanish language, making the distinction between the thou and the you to demonstrate familiarity and ultimately emotion. The politics were we...

from ffortsa

Oh boy. The printer almost did me in with this one. I got to page 442 and the next page was 412. Only the fact that Jim had the text on Kindle saved me from self-explosion. And it's a library book! Didn't anyone tell the librarian about the defect?!?! ok. got that said. Now, about the book. I was...

from santhony

This is my third experience with Hemingway, and while I fully expect to complete the entire Hemingway collection, I can't quite find it within myself to award five stars to any of the works I've read to date. In each of the novels (The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms being the other two) I've...