For Whom the Bell Tolls

High in the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There he finds the intense comradeship of war. And there he finds Maria who has escaped from Franco’s rebels.

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Ernest Hemingway was one of the most popular, influential, and charismatic of the American 20th century novelists. Books On Tape has undertaken to publishing an unabridged audiobook edition of Hemingway's body of work. Ably narrated by Alexander Adams, For Whom The Bell Tolls is Hemingway's classic story of Robert Jordan, an American fighting with anti-fascist guerillas in the mountains of Spain. This riveting novel of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, inspired idealism and battlefield disenchantment is a timeless testament. Five of the Alexander Adams narrated, unabridged Ernest Hemingway titles from Books On Tape are also available in a compact disc format. These include A Farewell To Arms (5698-7, $34.95); The Old Man And The Sea (5699-5, $19.95); The Sun Also Rises (5700-2, $34.95); The Snows Of Kilimanjaro & The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber (5702-9, $24.95); as well as the CD edition of For Whom The Bell Tolls (5701-0, $39.95).

The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, Ernest Hemingway is one of the true giants of modern American literature. Hemingway's punchy, pared-down style and ability to zero in on the perfect characterizing detail of a person or scene has influenced every serious novelist of the second half of the 20th century. Everyone reads him at one time or another.