by Ernest Hemingway
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“For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway a book from my great books list”
“For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway a book from my great books list”
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Jordan Peterson and Josh Waitzkin
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Sparse, muscular sentences drive a wartime sabotage plot through long stretches of interior reflection and landscape description. The reading payoff is a vivid, immediate sense of being on a front-line mission and feeling the moral stakes of choosing action under pressure. The main limitation is pacing: planning scenes and philosophical asides recur and lengthen the middle, so readers expecting uninterrupted momentum may feel stalled. Best read when you can sit with mood and moral ambiguity rather than chase constant plot turns.
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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 mount...
Difficulty:hard
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in Historical Fiction, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
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“This sprawling, detail-rich historical novel follows cathedral builders, nobles, and townspeople across decades, delivering immersive scene-setting and a steady accumulation of plotlines. Its useful part is the sustained attention to craft—architecture, politics, rivalry—that makes the medieval world tangible. The main limitation is repetitive melodrama and swings in pacing: long, satisfying set pieces sit beside stretches that feel slow or contrived. Better read slowly rather than skimmed; readers who stick it out will find payoff in the concluding convergences.”
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