- Title
- Reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls: Glossary and Commentary
- Author/Creator
- Alex Vernon
- Annotation
- Comprehensive guide annotating and commenting, often line-by-line, on familiar and obscure details and allusions to people, places, things, events, and other references found in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Entries are arranged chronologically as they appear in the novel and correspond to the page numbers of Scribner's editions so that readers can easily consult the guide as they read the novel chapter by chapter. Students, scholars, and general readers will appreciate the thoroughness and helpfulness of this close reading, which begins with the opening dedication to Martha Gellhorn and closes with the novel's final image of Robert Jordan lying on "the pine needle floor of the forest" taking readers back to where they began. Vernon's introduction focuses on the book's experimental integration of genres and traditions such as the Romance, Realism, and Naturalism and expansive literary lineage, from Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) and Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (1895) to F. Van de Water's Glory-Hunter: A Life of General Custer (1934) and much in between. Closing materials include a useful appendix charting the novel's composition and index.
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press; Kent, OH
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book
- Record Identifier
- 991015213299103691
Book
Reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls: Glossary and Commentary
Kent State University Press
2024
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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