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.

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.