Catalog / For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Ernest Hemingway
During the Spanish Civil War, Robert Jordan joins a Republican guerrilla unit for a sabotage mission. The novel treats war, loyalty, death, and commitment.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0684803356
- ISBN-13
- 9780684803357
- ASIN
- 0684803356
Why was For Whom the Bell Tolls challenged?
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1940. The book was declared non-mailable by the U.S. Post Office in 1940.
The catalog records the scope as distribution. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was For Whom the Bell Tolls banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · Distribution
The book was declared non-mailable by the U.S. Post Office in 1940.
A historical distribution restriction listed by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is For Whom the Bell Tolls banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1940. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was For Whom the Bell Tolls challenged?
- The book was declared non-mailable by the U.S. Post Office in 1940.
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