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Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Year First Published: 1996
Page Count: 496
Synopsis: In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

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Hamlette
Profanity Violence Sexual Content
Much of the profanities have been replaced with the word "obscenity," which makes for some interesting sentences. Still contains many instances of strong language even so. It's about war. People get killed. Also, one character had previously been raped. Two characters have a sexual relationship, but there is nothing explicit.
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Hemingway is often lambasted for creating two-dimensional female characters, but I thought they were equally well-written as the men. Fairly straight-forward, but with a surprise now and then. Not my favorite Hemingway, but it's a classic for a reason.
War is a tragedy, and Hemingway wants you never to forget this.

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Focus Military/War Setting Europe
Main Character Male Setting Earth Based
Main Character Adult Time Period Historical
Number of pages 400-500 Time Period Past
Readability Difficult Type Historical Fiction Elements

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