Book Review: For Whom The Bell Tolls
Book Review: For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway " No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee " John Donne. Three days in five hundred pages. It is true that The Old Man and The Sea earned Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature, but it would only be fair to also recognize For Whom The Bell Toll s as one of his distinctive hallmarks. For Whom The Bell Tolls is a modernist historical war novel narrated in the third person omniscient, written in a journalistic objective style and set in Spain during the civil war. The events of the narrative revolve around one single mission that requires an unfailing
