For Whom the Bell Tolls
American novelist, 1899–1961. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway.
In war novels
On 3 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- First published
- 1940
- Length
- 496 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- War novels, Love story, Political
Is For Whom the Bell Tolls worth reading?
3 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 books of the century (Le Monde) and 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 books of the century (Le Monde, 1999) | No. 8 | See the list |
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 80 | See the list |
Best edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls
The edition we link to is the Arrow paperback (1994), 496 pages.
- Publisher
- Arrow (paperback, 1994)
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN
- 9780099908609
How critics, prizes and readers rate For Whom the Bell Tolls
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 24% of the points available on critics' lists, against 15% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 0% on prize lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like For Whom the Bell Tolls
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