For Whom The Bell Tolls-丧钟为谁而鸣

作者：Ernest Hemingway

书名：For Whom The Bell Tolls《丧钟为谁而鸣》

中文简介：《丧钟为谁而鸣》描写了一九三七年的西班牙内战。以美国人参加西班牙人民反法西斯战争为题材，是海明威的代表作之一。故事讲述的是美国青年罗伯特·乔丹在大学里教授西班牙语，对西班牙有深切的感情。他志愿参加西班牙第二共和国政府军，在敌后进行爆破活动。为配合反攻，他奉命和地方游击队联系，完成炸桥任务。他争取到游击队队长巴勃罗的妻子比拉尔和其他队员的拥护，鼓励了已丧失斗志的巴勃罗，并按部就班地布置好各人的具体任务。在纷飞的战火中，他和比拉尔收留的被敌人糟蹋过的小姑娘玛丽亚坠入爱河，借此抹平了玛丽亚心灵的创伤。在这三天中，罗伯特历经爱情与职责的冲突和生与死的考验，人性不断升华。在炸完桥撤退的时候，自己却被敌人打伤了大腿，独自留下阻击敌人，最终为西班牙人民献出了年轻的生命。

英文简介：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 to 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.