For Whom the Bell Tolls

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For Whom the Bell Tolls is Ernest Hemingway’s 1940 novel about an American fighting with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, renowned for its exploration of love, honor, and the brutality of war.

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instanceOf novel
adaptedTo film
author Ernest Hemingway
containsCharacterType foreign volunteer
guerrilla fighters
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception highly acclaimed
endingStyle ambiguous ending
filmAdaptationDirector Sam Wood
filmAdaptationLeadActor Gary Cooper
Ingrid Bergman
firstEditionFormat hardcover
genre historical fiction
romantic novel
war novel
hasFilmAdaptation For Whom the Bell Tolls self-linksurface differs
surface form: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943 film)
hasISBN 9780684803357
includedIn 20th-century American literature canon
influencedByEvent Ernest Hemingway's experience as a journalist in the Spanish Civil War
literaryMovement modernism
mainCharacter María
Pablo
Pilar
Robert Jordan
narrativePointOfView third-person limited
nominatedFor Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
notableFor psychological depth
realistic depiction of war
use of translated Spanish dialogue in English
originalLanguage English
placeInAuthorOeuvre major work of Ernest Hemingway
politicalSideDepicted Republican Party
surface form: Republicans
protagonistNationality American
protagonistOccupation dynamiter
publicationDate 1940
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
setInCountry Spain
setInPeriod Spanish Civil War
settingEnvironment mountainous countryside
structure chronological narrative
theme brutality of war
death
honor
love
sacrifice
titleLanguage English
titleOrigin John Donne meditation

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