For Whom the Bell Tolls
About this ebook
Filled with life, color, drama and pathos, For Whom the Bell Tolls is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best novels. With his characteristic spare but beautiful prose, Hemingway draws people and places with striking individuality and beauty. A celebration of life at its most tragic and violent, this book manages to capture both the seeming utter futility and the great joy and promise of humanity.
This book is worth reading again and again.
About the author
Ernest Hemingway is one of the most famous American writers of the 20th century. He wrote novels and short stories about outdoorsmen, expatriates, soldiers and other men of action, and his plainspoken no-frills writing style became so famous that it was (and still is) frequently parodied. Hemingway's dashing machismo was almost as famous as his writing: he lived in Paris, Cuba and Key West, fancied bullfighting and big game hunting, and served as a war correspondent in World War II and the Spanish Civil War. Ernest Hemingway sealed his own notoriety when he killed himself with a shotgun in 1961. His books include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929) and his classic novel of the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). His short novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and Hemingway was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. After his death he was buried in Ketchum Cemetery in Ketchum, Idaho, the remote town where he had a home (and where he killed himself).