PublishedVintage Classics, May 1999 |
ISBN9780099289821 |
FormatSoftcover, 496 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.9cm |
'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony Burgess
Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War
'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it'
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...
'A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general' Sunday Telegraph
'One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce' Observer
One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World
