Summary of For Whom the Bell Tolls
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer who fights for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. Robert is tasked with blowing up a strategic bridge in the Guadarrama mountains between Madrid and Segovia. Together with a group of Spanish guerrilla fighters, he is taken to a secret camp in the mountains, where he falls in love with the beautiful MarĂa. However, when he tries to complete his mission to detonate the bridge, things do not go as planned.
Reasons to read For Whom the Bell Tolls
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” is widely regarded as one of the finest novels about the Spanish Civil War, particularly for the contrasts between the love story and the harsh realities of civil war. Ernest Hemingway, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, wrote many more books about Spain, including “Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises” and “Death in the Afternoon”. Some other notable works by Hemingway are “A Farewell to Armes”, “The Old Man and the Sea”, and “A Moveable Feast”.
Setting: Sierra de Guadarrama, near Segovia (Spain)
Original title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Year of publication: 1940
Nr of pages: 576
