Robert Jordan is a young American with the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. He is an experienced dynamiter, and he is tasked by a communist Russian general to travel behind enemy lines and destroy a bridge with the aid of a band of local anti-fascist guerrillas. This way, the general assures him, the enemy troops would not be able to respond to an upcoming offensive. In the Spanish camp, Robert Jordan meets María, a young Spanish woman. She is scarred from her parents’ execution and her rape at the hands of the Falangists. He begins to fall for her, and his feelings spark a lust for life deep within him. Hemingway’s epic novel of war and love has become a signature tale of courage and loyalty, love and defeat, and the demise of an ideal in the tragedy of one man’s stance against all odds.
About Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and journalist. He is best remembered for: A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises.
Hemingway was a World War I veteran, where he enlisted with the World War I ambulance drivers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
The above title was adapted into a film in 1943 by Sam Wood starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress, but won only one. The book was also adapted in the eponymous Metallica song in their second album, Ride the Lightning.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).