Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.53 | Fiction literature | 20 August 2008
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.
"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago?
Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms
The greatest American novel to emerge from World War I,
A
Farewell to Armscemented Ernest Hemingway’s reputation as one
of the most important novelists of the twentieth century. Drawn largely from
Hemingway’s own experiences, it is the story of a volunteer ambulance driver
wounded on the Italian front, the beautiful British nurse with whom he falls in
love, and their journey to find some small sanctuary in a world gone mad with
war. By turns beautiful and tragic, tender and harshly realistic, A
Farewell to Armsis one of the supreme literary achievements
of our time.
![The Notebook [Audio and Book]](http://englishtips.org/uploads/posts/2008-07/1215778976_noteb.jpg "The Notebook [Audio and Book]")
