Published in 1940, For Whom The Bell Tolls, tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. Jordan is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.

Filled with life, color, drama and pathos, For Whom the Bell Tolls is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best novels. With his characteristic spare but beautiful prose, Hemingway draws people and places with striking individuality and beauty. A celebration of life at its most tragic and violent, this book manages to capture both the seeming utter futility and the great joy and promise of humanity.

This book is worth reading again and again.