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Old Man and the Sea
Reader Score
88%
88% of readers
recommend this book
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, "The Old Man and the Sea" has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple. powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificnet twentieth-century classic.
Book Details
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Publish Date: May 5th, 1995
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.20in - 0.40in - 0.20lb
- EAN: 9780684801223
- Categories: • Classics• Sea Stories• Literary
About the Author
Hemingway, Ernest: - Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.
Praise for this book
"A beautiful tale, awash in the seasalt and sweat, bait and beer of the Havana coast. It tells a fundamental human truth: in a volatile world, from our first breath to our last wish, through triumphs and pitfalls both trivial and profound, what sustains us, ultimately, is hope."
--The Guardian
--The Guardian
"His masterpiece... a perfect piece of work."
--Mario Vargas Llosa
"The old man embodies the ambition and courage it takes to live, and the need to redeem yourself again and again in your own eyes. When at last after ntold agonies you hook the prize, the achievement of a lifetime, the biggest damn fish out there...it falls apart. The story is about the fact that life ends--a hard-to-ignore truth that we spend our days ignoring. All you have is the moment, this moment."
--Abraham Verghese
"Here is the master technician once more at the top of his form, doing superbly what he can do better than anyone else."
--The New York Times