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Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Drums Along the Mohawk by James Fenimore Cooper
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson For Whom the Bell Tolls? Well, this month I've read Flying Inn, Wuthering Heights, For Whom the Bell Toll, Seize the Day, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Manalive.
Currently I'm reading Human Action, City of God and Grapes of Wrath.
I'll try to read also Big Fisherman and maybe The Great Gatsby or T ... ... than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Animal Farm by George Orwell
9. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
10. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
11. Franny & Zooey by JD Salinger
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
13. Of Mice and Men by John Ste ... ... I read Don Quixote, Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, Beowulf, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and I reread Candide and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I ... ... for being utterly amazing and he lived up to the hype, so to speak. He taught us everything from The Great Gatsby to For Whom the Bell Tolls to Equus, and even introduced us to the glory of The Godfather. When we read plays we would volunteer for roles (or be assigned if we never ... ... stories offer. As I Lay Dying is a different matter entirely, of course. That really is a professional league read.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, et alii can be read more quickly, I suppose, but can they be read as deeply? That was not my experience of those two ... ... up Baby, Arsenic and Old lace, Notorious and Suspicion
6, Ingrid Bergman in Murder on the Orient Express, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Notorious
7. Greta Garbo as Ninotchka and Anna Christie
8. Audrey Hepburn as Natasha in War and Peace
9. Emily Watson as Jacqueline Du Pr ... ... Arms
65. Cold Comfort Farm
66. Tender is the Night
67. Gone With the Wind
68. The Hobbit
69. Rebecca
70. For Whom the Bell Tolls
71. The Outsider
72. The Little Prince
73. The Plague
74. The Catcher in the Rye
75. The Judge and His Hangman
76. Lord of the Flies ... Decline and fall of the unconsoled,wild swans for whom the bell tolls, in cold blood in slaughterhouse five on chesil beach. Spanish Civil War : For Whom The Bell Tolls :: French Revolution: ??
I don't think there's a right answer, I'm just looking for suggestions for a good fictional book set during the French Revolution.
(My interest was piqued after reading the Jim Shepard short story "Sans Farine" in The ... Just read The Civil War in Spain by Robert Goldston; now I can read For Whom the Bell Tolls. Master Humphrey's Clock Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Big Ben Rachel Anderson
Slow Hands Lynne Kaufman ... with a shotgun in his home in Ketchem, Idaho. Some of his works include The Sun Also Rises, True at First Light, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea....
Sometimes you must go to extremes to grab a touchstone and still it doesn't work! I'm with BasiliskSam. For example, I read For Whom the Bell Tolls, which got me interested in the Basque people. So, I read Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky, which got me interested in Basque culture and literature. I then read Rossetti's Obsession, which is a novel by a Ba ... ...
And I disliked A Farewell to Arms so much that I gave up on it after a couple of chapters so I was surprised that I loved For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... of a fairly intense looking Hispanic or Filipino woman, with 1940s hair and dress, inside a hardback Scribners edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Not certain of the exact edition, as the only indicia is "Copyright 1940, by Ernest Hemingway"--descriptive but not definitive. A SanctiSpiritus in Bestsellers over the Years : 1940 (Jun 2, 2008, 11:09pm) I enjoyed For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... Zhivago (486)
19. Justine (488)
20. Lolita (496)
21. The Story of O (506)
22. Lord of the Flies (508)
23. For Whom the Bell Tolls (587)
24. The Power and the Glory (589)
25. Rebecca (603)
26. The Hobbit (610)
27. Out of Africa (614)
28. The Sun Also Rises (689)
2 ... ... and Lovers
Brave New World
The Sound and the Fury, The Reivers and As I lay Dying
Stories by Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and To have and Have Not
Beuty and Sadness
Lolita
Animal Farm and Burmese Days and An ... ... by Richard Flanagan
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Undue Noise by Andrew Ford
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway I think For Whom the Bell Tolls is a much finer work than the Steinbeck, but the Steinbeck really spoke to poor people everywhere, who identified with the resilience of those who have no power other than their ability to keep going.
The Agnes Newton Keith book, The Land Below the Wind, is ... Well, I'm just starting For Whom the Bell Tolls. A_musing beat me to the punch last time, so i'll typr quick...
From For Whom the Bell Tolls to The Hours... I have read To Have and Have Not and will lob in an easy one with For Whom the Bell Tolls. War and Peace, the newest translation.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Dangerous Summer
Islands in the Stream
A Farewell to Arms
The Sun Also Rises
Don Quixote
are what I have read over the last year.
I'm currently working on:
Aenid, the Fagles translation
Iliad, the Fagles ... ... undoubtedly powerful and almost hypnotic in its hold on the reader, but I'd rather read and reread Pride and Prejudice or For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Perhaps the problem is late 19th century fiction in general. There is a current of morbidity in much of it--especially the most highly ... I finally finished wading through this one . . .
20. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (471 pages) ... about" books.
This is my list so far.
1. Saturday by Ian McEwan
2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
3. For whom the Bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway
4. The Trial by Franz Kafka
5. Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Currently reading: A portrait of a lady by He ... ... 6 at the moment, with a potential 7th starting on Monday.
With my students: The Once and Future King, Little Women, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
For my pleasure: Plain Truth and Espresso Tales.
Required school reading (yawn): Fair Isn't Always Equal. It's about grading. Yawn again. ... come out without something. It's a given! Mexican food and books - what a great combo!
Last week I bought these:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Watership Down
Little Women
One of my classes will be doing literature circles next week, so I just have to have a copy of everything they'r ... ... as I expected.
I need to get two more read this month to keep pace. I should finish A Day of Small Beginnings and For Whom the Bell Tolls this month. Cliff - as soon as I've ploughed my way through For Whom The Bell Tolls, I'll be starting Matter. Can;t say I'm enjoying the Hemingway, so I might be on the Banks by this weekend. ... the sound of this book. "walking barrage of burpy bulges".
I'm hoping it's something in your catalogue... how about:
For whom the bell tools (i just love the new title).
... elderly ladies that were customers at the garage came over to me and asked what I was reading. I showed them the cover of For Whom the Bell Tolls and they asked if I was taking a class. I told them no, I just like to read. The look on their faces was priceless, I wish I knew what they had ... ... ke>
5. Silk by Alessandro Baricco
6. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
7. Possession by AS Byatt
8. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls made in 1943, starring Gary Cooper. A good old movie well worth renting.
*she's off back to the intenet to find Farewell to Arms* I am sure Farewell to Arms was made into one of those great 1940s movies, maybe with Ingrid Bergman. Go rent it! Also, For Whom the Bell Tolls has been made into a movie.
I hate it when really good old movies are remade by not so good updated movies. ... lived through was the Hemingway variety. Incidentally, when Robert Jordan asked his question about the earth moving in For Whom the Bell Tolls, do you think the earth moving caused the bells to toll? ... Shadowland
VIII Longtime TBR
1 A Prayer for Owen Meany
2 Death of a Salesman
3 Dangling Man
4 For Whom the Bell Tolls
5 The Dispossesed
6 Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
7 Desolation Angels
8 The Last Temptation of C ... ... Heller
39. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
40. Fiesta: the sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway
41. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
42. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
43. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
44. Dispatches ... I've read Random Harvest (but I can't remember what it's about!) and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
... opies
3. This Above All, Eric Knight 3 copies
4. The Sun Is My Undoing, Marguerite Steen 11 copies
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway 3,212 copies
6. Oliver Wiswell, Kenneth Roberts 60 copies
7. H. M. Pulham, Esquire, John P. Marquand 23 ... ... Honor - Richard Condon
Deliverance - James Dickey
Spartacus - Howard Fast
Myra Breckenridge - Gore Vidal
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
A Room With A View - E.M. Forster
The Russia House - John Le Carre
The Constant Gardener - John Le Carre
The Spy Who ... read the 1940 pulitzer Prize winng The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway is on my to be read pile.
How Green Was My Valley by Richard LLewellyn I read in one sitting as a young lad home from school with the measles.( I know I'm ... ... by Art Spiegelman
53. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My
Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
54. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
This book has Redeemed Hemingway for me. They should have assigned this in class instead of the Old Man and the Sea ... ... an allusion to the Vanity Fair of The Pilgrim's Progress
4. The Wastelands by Stephen King -T.S. Eliot's
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway quoting John Donne
This is fun. ... Over the Years". One of the years I looked at, 1940, we were lucky and got two serious books in the same year:
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
In 2001 (the latest year I've done), we managed at least one:
The Corre ... Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway ... Cadiz, Ronda and Malaga.
Some of this cities have a literary existence, surely.
In my library I have Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, set in Ronda, but lamentably I have not read it yet.
I have, however, read The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte, in which the ... ... If I used "classic" would P&P get the tag? No question. Is it chick lit"? No question? It's the prototype.
Hmmm, For Whom the Bell Tolls as "Southern literature".
Fascinating stuff.
I can't think of mine. When I asked my husband he said For Whom the Bell Tolls without hesitation. I am still thinking... ...
Books:
Mr. Darcy
Edward Cullen
Sirius Black
F'lar
Lachlain MacRieve from A Hunger like no other
Robert Jordan from For Whom The Bell Tolls (don't ask)
George Emerson from A room With A View
Movies: anything played by Henry Cavill and Clive Owen. Oh swoon! ... a lot of unintended ones) but it took me a long time to pick up another. Why couldn't schools teach The Sun Also Rises or For Whom the Bell Tolls? The language may be easier in Old Man, but kids can't relate to it at all.
Actually there are a lot of classic authors on whom the syllabus ... ... am thinking that Ernest Hemingway is certainly a classic author for the United States, and includes a bunch of titles. For Whom the Bell Tolls also appears on the 1941 list in fifth place.
F. van Wyck Mason is somewhat better known for The Winter at Valley Forge - 22 owners. ... and has 2 reviews. I had to combine the all caps version with the regular lower & upper case to get this number up.
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway is owned by 2764 with 19 reviews, plus 7 more of the title with no author listed.
5. The Nazarene by Sholem Asch ... A couple of months ago I was rereading For whom the Bell Tolls, one of my favourites, and when I got to the part where they were preparing to blow the bridge I just couldn't keep reading. I'd had a rough few months and I just couldn't face what was coming, even though I've read the book several ... I just finished For Whom the Bell Tolls. I'm now about half way through The Other Boleyn Girl, which I'm really enjoying.
I'm also reading Down and Out in Paris and London, so far, so good. ...
I'm also reading Burning Bright, which took me awhile to get into, but I enjoy historical fiction.
I'm also reading For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Confederacy of Dunces.
Also The Aspern Papers because of John Berendt mentioning it in The city of falling angels. ...
A Wedding in December
Mistress Bradstreet
700 Sundays
Fortunate Son
Maniac Magee
The God of Small Things
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Audio books
Black Friday
Mary Mary
Honeymoon
London Bridges
Holidays on Ice
Naked
The Ice Queen
Flyboys
Light on Snow
... My top 5:
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
2. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
4. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
5. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Obviously, I spent most of the first ... ... after reading Black Swan Green. I decided to read a short, quick read first (I was so exhausted after plodding through For Whom The Bell Tolls!! After just finishing For Whom The Bell Tolls, I was ready for a light and easy read; so I picked up The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg. I love Berg's easy writing style and her connection with the characters. Her books are always wonderful. Cloud Atlas is also on my list TBR as soon as I finish For Whom The Bell Tolls which has become quite plodding for me. From For Who The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway:
Maybe his is just one of the gloomy ones.
No, he said to himself, don't fool yourself. You do not know how he was before; but you do know that he is going bad fast and without hiding it. When he starts to hide it he will have made a ... I'm reading March by Geraldine Brooks this week. I hope to finish with it by Tuesday and then start For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
1. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
2. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
4. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
5. Ron Kittle's Tales from the White Sox Dugout by Ron Kittle with Bob Logan
6. To Have and ... #9-This isn't a Dickens question, but why did you have to choke down For Whom the Bell Tolls? When I was living in Puerto Rico in the early 50's, I read it in Spanish. It sounded a lot better in Spanish than in English, and the distance from the Spanish Civil War was not that great. The defense ... ... the seething political situation pretty well--IMO. I like Man's Hope by Andre Malraux and also Ernest Hemingway's For whom the bell tolls but they tend towards their particular writers own biases and are good war fiction but unreliable historically.
Non-fiction I would look at Hug ... ... then read more for the sex than for the military stuff.
Also, the Hemingway I haven't read since I was a teenager: For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms. ... ego-driven, nonsense.
Early Hemingway, partcularly The Sun Also Rises is swell, but his later stuff, particularly For Whom the Bell Tolls is awful, a parody of itself. Yeah, Ernest, I know you´re story´s set in Spain and all, but your writing still reminds me of turgid Spanish ... ... finish it, but I think it would have been better if it had been a few hundred pages shortly.
I felt the same way about For Whom the Bell Tolls. I was so glad that I read The Sun Also Rises (which I loved) first, because if I'd picked up Bell first, I never would have read anything else by ... For whom the bell tolls where's the German air force when you need them?
Catch-22 repeats the same joke for 400 pages. Some of the set pieces were funny though.
The Red Badge of Courage tedious.
Bleak House couldn't figure it out except for the anty-imperialist rant. I haven't read anything in this lifetime I liked less than For Whom the Bell Tolls because it felt so calculated, artificial, to me. It felt, like all the rest of Hemingway that I have read, as though every time ol' Papa confronted the typewriter, locked it in deathless glorious combat between Ma ... ...
That is the same logic that kept me from paying $500 for the first Harry Potter - how could a YA novel be worth more than For Whom the Bell Tolls or the nice review copy of Catch-22 I'd sold at a book show the year before?
The only explanation is momentum and hype, tying into ... ... Old Man and the Sea in school somehow, but we did read The Sun Also Rises; I quite liked it. Then, more recently, I read For Whom the Bell Tolls and loathed it from beginning to end. It's been a couple of years since I finished that one, but it still hasn't worn off completely!
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