Harold Bloom states that among Ernest Hemingway’s many creations, only 15 of his short stories and the novel The Sun Also Rise transcends their time and exist as more than mere period pieces. However, despite of From Whom the Bell Tolls’ commercial success and continued status as a postmodern classic, the novel is not without its critics when it comes to the issue of historicity and relevance to the modern reader. With over 785,000 copies sold in the United States and another 100,000 copies sold in the United Kingdom by the end of 1943 (Lynn 1987, 484), For Whom the Bell Tolls not only bring forth the issue of The Spanish Civil War to the free world, it also promotes solidarity among mankind against the rise of fascism regardless of reader background. And therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls. The novel begins with a poem by 17th century Christian poet John Donne (1572-1631) “No man is an Iland, intire of it self every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine…. If there is one thing Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” insist on, it is the solidarity of humanity against a common threat. Historicity as Acceptable Casualty of War Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
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