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Hemingway uses special "literary techniques" in "For whom the Bell Tolls" that rather than enhancing the reading experience detract from it. Please see the list below. The ending is totally soppy. You learn nothing about the Spanish Civil War, and a better explanation for why Robert Jordan decided to fight with the Republicans should have been given. The scenes depicting physical attraction were bland and insipid. Some dislike the macho behavior of Hemingway's characters, but this doesn't bother
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For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.
A movie was made based on this book For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) with Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff. ...more
A movie was made based on this book For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) with Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff. ...more
At the beginning of 2017 I decided that it was finally time to read the Classics. Even so I have avoided certain authors because I was intimidated by some of them and certain I would hate others. Mostly I have been wrong. Hemingway fit into both of those misconceptions. I will definitely read more of his stories.
This is a book about a war about which I knew one thing only -- that Franco came from it. This book takes place in only four days and in one location so I didn't learn a great deal about ...more
This is a book about a war about which I knew one thing only -- that Franco came from it. This book takes place in only four days and in one location so I didn't learn a great deal about ...more
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