For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) published in 1940.
It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a communist guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As an expert in the use of explosives, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. This novel is widely regarded to be among Hemingway's
greatest works, along with The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and A Farewell to Arms
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