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A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped, 2nd state dust jacket with the photographer's name listed. For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades, is attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. In his portrayal of Jordan s love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of a guerilla leader s last stand, Hemingway creates a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise.

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.