<Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Charles Scribner's Sons </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 21 October 1940 </Td> </Tr> <P> For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940 . It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War . As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia . </P> <P> The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works, along with The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea . </P>

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