Whom the bell tolls took 7 hours and 49 minutes to read, It is a novel by Ernest Hemingway released in 1948, and this novel was embodied in a film that took about 170 minutes. The novel tells the story of Robert Gordon, a young American belonging to the international battalions accompanying a communist war gang during the Spanish Civil War. Robert Gordon, as an expert in the use of explosives, was appointed to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Sqoubia. This novel is considered one of Hemingway's greatest works.