The Old Man and the Sea

Name: The Old Man and the Sea
ISBN: 9785003035952

Ernest Hemingway

1952·160 pages

Part of The Scribner library of contemporary classics series

Literary Fiction

classics friendship friendship fiction introspective isolation melancholic

★ Pulitzer Prize (1952) · Winner National Book Award (1953) · Nominee

“Hemingway's magnificent fable”
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“This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature.”
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“It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.”
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world.

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