- Spain in fiction, Fiction, History, Spanish Civil War
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.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, Arcturus, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 185
- Language
- vie, Polish, Korean, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9789355462718
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“Estaba tirado boca abajo, sobre una capa de agujas de pino color castaño, con la barbilla apoyada en los brazos cruzados, mientras el viento, en lo alto, zumbaba entre las copas.”
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction. Since his death three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works have been published. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he worked as a reporter but within months he left for the Italian front to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He was seriously injured and returned home within the year. He married his first wife Hadley Richardson in 1922 and moved to Paris, where
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