Ernest Hemingway’s novel «For Whom the Bell Tolls». Эрнест Хемингуэй «По ком звонит колокол»

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway travelled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel «For Whom the Bell Tolls».The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best works. The title is from a sermon by John Donne. Hemingway quotes part of the meditation (using Donne’s original spelling) in the book’s epigraph. Published in 1940, «For Whom the Bell Tolls» tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. Hemingway created a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author’s previous works, «For Whom the Bell Tolls» tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. When it was first published, The New York Times called it “a tremendous piece of work,” and it still stands today as one o