{"product_id":"for-whom-the-bell-tolls","title":"For Whom the Bell Tolls","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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\", \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"If the function of a writer is to reveal reality,\" Maxwell Perkins wrote 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45027684778284,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/danebooksandgifts.myshopify.com\/products\/for-whom-the-bell-tolls","provider":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}