
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Auteur: Ernest Hemingway
- Première publication: 1940
Synopsis
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.
Source : Open Library (modifiée si besoin)
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Recommended for the 1941 Pulitzer by the jury, but the board vetoed it and no fiction prize was given that year Author honors: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953); Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)