Ernest Hemingway Novels

About For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) is widely regarded as his finest novel — the story of an American volunteer in the Spanish Civil War sent to blow up a bridge, and the three days he spends with a guerrilla band in the mountains. Hemingway's novels in recommended reading order: The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), The Old Man and the Sea (1952).