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Picture of Ernest Hemingway, twentieth century American novelist and author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Yousef Karsh


 
October 21, 1940
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls
 
by Steve King

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On this day in 1940 Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls was published. It had been over a decade since A Farewell to Arms, and though there had been a handful of books since, the critics had not thought much of them. About this one, many agreed with Edmund Wilson: "Hemingway the artist is with us again; and it is like having an old friend back." Sales kept pace, with half a million copies sold in the first six months, and a record-setting film deal. There were dissenting voices, some of them raised at Hemingway's view of the Spanish Civil War, some of them at his love-making ...   FULL STORY »Luminary Graphics, Inc.
 
 
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