ISBN: 9780099908609
Release Date: 18 Aug 1994
Average rating:   (read by 123 members)

Categories: Modern fiction , War fiction

Hemingway's evocation of the pride and the tragedy of the civil war that tore Spain apart. A young American volunteer is sent to handle the dynamiting of a bridge behind the lines of Franco's army. In the mountains he find the dangers and the intense comradeship of war - and he discovers Maria.

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jono
Rated it   4 months ago
Grim but good. Keep up the good work Ernest!

HJDaugherty
Rated it   7 months ago
A Hemingway that I actually enjoyed reading.

Nana81
Rated it   8 months ago
It's a love story with an explosion in the end.

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