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Word: iland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hemingway found the great experience-The Spanish Civil War. This week he published the great novel-For Whom the Bell Tolls. He took the title from a passage by Preacher Poet John Donne: "No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, . . . any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in Spain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...defeat fascism. Pilar goes through with it because she is part of the revolution and cannot stop. Pablo's strong instinct to live makes him desert at the last moment and destroy the detonator. Then he, too, realizes in his own way that "no man is an iland." He cannot stand the loneliness of desertion, returns to help dynamite the bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in Spain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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