"The best book Hemingway has written", (New York Times) 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. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is Hemingway's finest novel, a passionate evocation of the pride and the tragedy of the Civil War that tore Spain apart. "The best fictional report on the Spanish Civil War that we possess", (Anthony Burgess) "One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce", (Observer)