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        For Whom the Bell Tolls


        setting

        Segovia, Spain

        time

        Spanish Civil War

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1940

        page count

        471

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Robert Jordan

        Rip's impressions

        Beautiful story. Next to Old Man and the Sea, it's my favorite.

        first line

        He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees. The mountainside sloped gently where he lay; but below it was steep and he could see the dark of the oiled road winding through the pass.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

        literary tidbits

        Read "The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles" by Stephen Koch. It's about the falling out between the two men in Spain during the civil war. Hemingway comes across as a real prick and a commie dupe.

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