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Literature in American Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Extract

In the autumn of 1940 Ernest Hemingway published his novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. The book had been eagerly awaited. We knew well in advance that the setting of the story was the civil war in Spain, that event so rich in meaning for the recent history of the world. We knew also that Mr. Hemingway was writing, perhaps more than ever before, out of passionate concern over the apathy of mankind towards a growing menace to all western civilization. Few, however, had any clue to the enigmatic title. Then came publication day.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 65 , Issue 6 , December 1950 , pp. 977 - 997
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1950

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Footnotes

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This Report of a special Committee of the Association's Commission on Trends in Education, first published in 1943 as a pamphlet, is reprinted in PMLA by authorization of the Executive Council for the benefit of both our many new members and those older members who may have overlooked the original publication. The Report was written by Howard F. Lowry, with the cooperation of Oscar J. Campbell, Henry Grattan Doyle, Marjorie H. Nicolson, Horatio Smith, and George Van Santvoord.—ed.