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Favourite Books (248) » 43 more 1940s (9) Top Five Books of 2013 (320) Banned Books Week 2014 (102) Top Five Books of 2014 (878) 20th Century Literature (307) War Stories (8) A Novel Cure (193) Sonlight Books (370) Books Read in 2017 (3,530) Best Love Stories (35) 100 World Classics (63) Modernism (89) CCE 1000 Good Books List (227) Europe (31) Historical Fiction (667) Unread books (494) infjsarah's wishlist (75) Favorite Long Books (249) No current Talk conversations about this book. This book has the Hemingway gritty voice. War is hell. People become victims of themselves as influenced by their circumstances.the love story was too obligatory, too perfect and too predictable. Had to read the study aid to see why it was so highly considered. ( ![]() Since I had previously read The Sun Also Rises and thought it was a real snooze; I thought I would give Hemingway another try......zzzzzzzzzz. This novel is set in Spain during the Spanish Civil War It is about an American, Robert Jordan, who is working with a guerilla group. His one job is to blow up a bridge. 98% of the book is about his thinking about it and debating it with other guerillas. Absolutely no better than the last Hemingway. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a lengthy book. It is definitely a challenge to read, but I feel once you identify the key themes within the novel, such as the fight between "good and bad", the pages go a little faster. The moral conflict the main character experiences can occasionally be hooking. All in all, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience to read a book like this. It is worth it in the long run, as Hemingway hides lots of meaning and themes within this story, which can be connected to the problems Hemingway faced in the world he lived in. Hemingway can do in 7 pages what takes some writers 400--but this proves the obverse to be true. I'm 250 pp in and there's been about 7 good pages so far. This is the same man who wrote The Sun Also Rises and "The Killers?" The dialogue is often painful. Who talks like this? This is dull, dull, dull. I can't do another 250. Definitely a book widely praised because it has been widely praised. I'll honor it more in the breach than the observance. A book with very little action about a man of action who spends most of his time thinking. I think a contemporary writer would've written the book about half as long and cut the middle section entirely. This is a book that makes a bold and stubborn decision to be slow and dish out the good stuff sparingly. Yet it's very, very worthwhile and satisfying once the whole thing comes together at the end. Once all the dragging bits in the cave and the boring romance have fallen away, you're left with a story of wonderful symmetry, fantastic dialogue, and very memorable scenes.
Hemingway the artist is with us again; and it is like having an old friend back. That he should thus go back to his art, after a period of artistic demoralization, and give it a larger scope, that, in an era of general perplexity and panic, he should dramatize the events of the immediate past in terms, not of partisan journalism, but of the common human instincts that make men both fraternal and combative, is a reassuring evidence of the soundness of our intellectual life. ". . . a tremendous piece of work. . . . Mr. Hemingway has always been the writer, but he has never been the master that he is in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' . . . his finest novel." The greatness of this book is the greatness of these people's triumph over their foreknowledge of death-to-come... For Whom the Bell Tolls, unlike other novels of the Spanish Civil War, is told not in terms of the heroics and dubious politics of the International Brigades, but as a simple human struggle of the Spanish people. The bell in this book tolls for all mankind. Is contained inFour Novels: A Farewell to Arms / For Whom The Bell Tolls / The Old Man and the Sea / The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Romanzi: Volume 1 & 2 by Ernest Hemingway The Novels Of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway Five Novels: The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / To Have and Have Not / The Old Man and the Sea / For Whom the Bell Tolls (FOLIO SOCIETY) by Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Fiesta / The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber / Across the River and into the Trees / The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Book-of-the-Month-Club Set of 6: A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast / For Whom the Bell Tolls / A Farewell to Arms / The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms / For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Sun Also Rises / Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway - Four Novels - Complete and Unabridged: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Hemmingway - The Sun Also Rises, a Farewell to Arms, to Have and Have Not, for Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway ContainsHas the adaptationHas as a student's study guide
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