Simon & Schuster. 07/01/1995. Reprint. In FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, published in 1940, Hemingway explores his own conflicting emotions about heroism, the futility of war, and the value of human life--a theme that is exemplified by the book's title, which is taken from the 17th-century poet John Donne's famous sermon that begins "No man is an island" and goes on to say one should not ask for whom the funeral bell tolls: "it tolls for thee." The novel, which is set during the Spanish Civil War in the spring of 1937, takes place over the course of four days. It tells the story of Robert Jordon, a young American attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain--a college teacher who happened to be in Spain on vacation and decided to join the Loyalists. He has now been commissioned to blow up a bridge. Soon after he arrives at the mountain camp, he meets a young woman named Maria who has been raped by the fascists and seen her parents killed. The two fall instantly in love, but their romance is cut short by the inexorable progress of the war. With passionate clarity, Hemingway depicts Jordan's conflicting tangle of emotions: the idealism with which he joined the Loyalist cause, his belief in romantic love as salvation, his growing questions about whether violence is ever justified, and the combination of fatalism and fear with which he confronts his own death. In the novel's final moments, as Jordan faces the inevitable, he resolves the questions that have plagued him. Hemingway's novel, with its bleak view of war and the failure of idealism, has been called an antiwar document, but the book is more complex than that. It is more about the grim necessity of recognizing that moral issues are seldom clearly marked out in black and white, and that human beings must struggle constantly with difficult choices. Originally published at $15.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 05/01/1996. In her 13th novel, the National Book Award-winning author Mary Lee Settle narrates the story of an unconventional Southern woman. Melinda Kregg Dunston shirks the life of leisure and joins the Red Cross, gets involved in a bloody coal miners' strike, and volunteers for the Republican cause in Spain. She falls in love with an idealistic young doctor and barely escapes Spain with a young orphan. Originally published at $26.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/1996. 317 pgs. Harrison's novel tells the tale of two women during the Inquisition--a silk harvester's daughter and a queen. When the daughter of a Castilian silk harvester begins a passionate love affair with a Catholic priest, she is accused of being a witch and ends up detained in an underground prison. Meanwhile, Maria Luisa, the French princess married to the King of Spain, comes under attack when the royal couple fails to conceive a child. Harrison interweaves the lives of two seemingly opposite women. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 10/01/1995. Revised. 284 pgs. A departure from David Leavitt's usual domestic and very American novels, WHILE ENGLAND SLEEPS is a heartfelt gay love story set in Europe. It chronicles the romance between English writer Brian Botsford and Communist activist Edward Phelan. Botsford regards his homosexuality as a mere phase; his ambivalence about the affair drives Phelan away, and he goes off to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Then, feeling guilty, Botsford overcomes his denial about his own nature, and follows Phelan into war. This novel became the center of a literary contretemps when the poet Stephen Spender (then in his 80s) sued Leavitt, charging that the book was not only "pornographic," "idle, slovenly, [and] dishonest," it was also little more than a thinly disguised and salacious retelling of parts of Spender's own 1951 memoir WORLD WITHIN WORLD. The case was settled out of court, and Leavitt's publisher was forced to withdraw the book's English edition and substantially revise subsequent editions. Leavitt also included an afterword, stoutly defending himself against Spender's accusations. Originally published at $11.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/01/1995. As he did in his movie "The Crying Game," Neil Jordan places an intensely personal story in the context of political and social violence in Ireland. Donal Gore has lost his mother; when the piano teacher Rose moves in with him and his father, Donal begins an affair with her. The relationship ends when he goes to fight--against his father's wishes--in the Spanish Civil War. Imprisoned, he is sustained by memories of night fishing with his father on the beach with his father. Upon his return, he finds that his father has married Rose. Donal's involvement with the IRA, his ties to Germany during World War II, and his father's service with the former Free State government provide the political context for Jordan's story. Originally published at $21.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 11/01/1999. A novel about the friendship between a young war photographer who is racked with guilt, and a doctor who served in the Spanish Civil War. Originally published at $15.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Permanent Pr Pub Co. 04/01/1984. The protagonist of this far-ranging novel lives through the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s. Originally published at $26.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 06/01/1991. 295 pgs. The artist-heroine of this expansive novel struggles through the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and Vietnam. Originally published at $18.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 04/01/2002. A Spanish student during the Spanish Civil War leaves Barcelona when his life becomes endangered, and bicycles precariously home to his native village. Originally published at $15.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/01/2001. 165 pgs. Originally written in Galician, the language of northwest Spain, THE CARPENTER'S PENCIL takes place in that region during the Spanish Civil War--recollected in old age by a man named Herbal. Herbal was once a guard at the prison where Daniel DeBarca, a doctor, was incarcerated for his antifascist sentiments--but Herbal had doubts about his job, and became the secret protector of DeBarca and the woman he loved, a revolutionary named Marisa Mallo. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1996. 118 pgs. Sister Consuela is a young nun in Barcelona, recently made Mother Superior of her convent. In order to raise funds to start an old people's home, she must visit the wealthy Don Augusto Aixela, who opposed the rebels during the civil war, and who is not only rich but worldly. She finds herself falling in love with him, but in an attempt to atone for her feelings, falls into the hands of his enemies. Thirty years later, her intense feelings for Don Aixela behind her, she learns what happened to him. Originally published at $16.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Permanent Pr Pub Co. 08/01/1996. 286 pgs. A pair of stories, told in alternating chapters, which dovetail at the end. In 1939, Roy Armstrong is exiled in Mexico, his U.S. citizenship revoked because of his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. He turns to Peggy Arnett, a steel heiress with a passion for revolutionary causes, for help. In the second narrative thread, which takes place in 1986, Walter Hardy is 28 years old and starting his career in politics in ignominious fashion: dealing with the Nicaraguan freedom fighters and getting caught for it during the Oliver North hearings. However, he has evidence that not only indicts those more powerful than he is, but involves Peggy and Roy as well. Originally published at $28.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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