Overview
'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony BurgessHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge.
Hemingway''s great novel of the Spanish Civil War
''The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it''
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco''s rebels...
''A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general'' Sunday Telegraph
''One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce'' Observer
**One of the BBC''s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
- | Author: Ernest Hemingway
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: May 27, 1999
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780099289821
- | ISBN-10: 0099289822
