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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alex VernonPublisher: Kent State University Press Imprint: Kent State University Press Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9781606354728ISBN 10: 1606354728 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 29 February 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""Meticulously researched and assembled by a widely respected authority on For Whom the Bell Tolls, this compendium is an extremely useful guide to the many references, allusions, and Spanish phrases in the novel.""—Milton Cohen, author of The Pull of Politics: Steinbeck, Wright, Hemingway, and the Left in the Late 1930s ""The farther the world of the Spanish Civil War recedes into the past, the more anyone who wants to fully understand Hemingway's ambitious novel can use a guidebook like this one. With his lifetime of engagement with Hemingway, Alex Vernon is exactly the right person to write it, and he has done a splendid and thorough job.""—Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 ""Anyone interested in understanding Hemingway's achievement in this important and controversial novel will find Alex Vernon's Reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls indispensable. —Laurence W. Mazzeno, author of The Critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014: Shaping an American Literary Icon ""Alex Vernon has written the indispensable companion to For Whom the Bell Tolls. Beautifully researched, this volume elucidates the historical forces, figures, places, and events essential to a deep understanding of this masterpiece set against the complexities of the Spanish Civil War. With vital insights into the novel's composition, its manuscript, its major themes, and Hemingway's craft, this book will be deeply appreciated by students and scholars alike."" —Carl Eby, author of Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood and coeditor of Hemingway's Spain: Imagining the Spanish World" Author InformationAlex Vernon is the M. E. and Ima Graves Peace Professor of English at Hendrix College. He is the author of nine books, including three with Kent State University Press: Teaching Hemingway and War; Arms and the Self: War, the Military, and Autobiographical Writing; and Most Succinctly Bred. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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