When Books Were Fun Episode 023: Warfare: Realistic and Fantasy

In which we discuss For Whom the Bells Toll (1940) by Ernest Hemingway and The Well of the Unicorn (1948) by Fletcher Pratt, and consider Hemingway’s gritty tale of conflicting wartime loyalties in the Spanish civil war and a gritty high fantasy tale of conflicting wartime loyalties, published several years before Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings defined the fantasy genre. whenbookswerefun@gmail.com Check out Al’s stories at sonrisestories.com. Check out Jeff’s upcoming book at perebruinpress.com.