For Whom the Bell Tolls

...she hardly thinks about her great-grandfather at all, she says - despite him writing some of America's most famous novels such as For Whom The Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, for which he won the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. 'Ernest is...

In this article: Mariel Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, Playboy, Woody Allen, Manhattan, Oscar, Nobel Prize, and Harry Potter

Hemingway frequently used images to produce the dense atmosphere of violence and death his books are renowned for; the main image of For Whom the Bell Tolls is the machine image. As he had done in "A Farewell to Arms", Hemingway...

In this article: Ernest Hemingway, Suicide, Spanish Civil War, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and Andres Nin

...Pilar. (The name may ring a bell; it was his pet name for his second wife, Pauline, and was what he called one of his earthy heroines in "For Whom the Bell Tolls.") Having witnessed the Spanish civil war and become a vehement anti-fascist,...

In this article: Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Spanish Civil War, Communism, Fascism, The Killers, Islands in the Stream, and A Moveable Feast

...to Cuba Philip Wilson Bonsal made the 1954 Nobel Literature laureate to leave the island. The author of "The Old Man and the Sea" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" abandoned Cuba suddenly on July 25, 1960, leaving many personal belongings at...

In this article: Hemingway, Cuba, US, Fidel Castro, Havana, Juventud Rebelde, Depression, and The Old Man and the Sea

...and did much of his greatest writing. The villa, Finca Vigia, has been fully restored, including the room in which Hemingway wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls'' and "The Old Man and the Sea. '' Despite the political divisions, the project...

In this article: Ernest Hemingway, John McCain, Fidel Castro, The Old Man and the Sea, Cuba, and Bob Vila

...of books, his objects. For 20 years Hemingway lounged in these seats, drank from these bottles, wrote one of his greatest works, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," and dreamed up his last great classic on this typewriter, "The Old Man and...

In this article: Ernest Hemingway, Havana, Fidel Castro, Cuba, World War II, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea

...them with any significant information. Although the Soviets were unhappy with his account of communists in the Spanish Civil War in For Whom the Bell Tolls (in which Hemingway chronicled atrocities committed by both sides in the...

In this article: Alexander Vassiliev, Alger Hiss, John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, Ernest Hemingway, World War II, Legal age, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Spanish Civil War

...conservationists have painstakingly restored, then scanned into computers. Hemingway moved to Finca Vigia in 1939, the year before "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was published, and wrote "The Old Man and the Sea," "A Moveable Feast" and...

In this article: Ernest Hemingway, Finca Vigia, Cuba, Suicide, Nobel Prize for Literature, World War Two, Islands in the Stream, and A Moveable Feast

...dose of skepticism. Yet as Democrats and Republicans prepare for their upcoming conventions, the fact that both McCain and Obama cite "For Whom the Bell Tolls" as their fave read is revealing on two levels: If it's just the candidate's...

In this article: Ernest Hemingway, John McCain, Barack Obama, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Snickers, Spanish Civil War, and Foreign Affairs

NEW YORK -- A signed proof of Ernest Hemingway's novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," will be offered at auction in November. The proof, which contains Hemingway's handwritten corrections, will be offered at Swann Galleries' auction of 19th and...

In this article: Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women, Martha Gellhorn, Key West, NEW YORK, and Florida