The Old Man and the Sea 1952
- American Sea stories, Male friendship, Fishers, Fiction
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
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Earnest, grave, intimate and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 131
- Publisher
- Book-Of-the-Month-Club, Simon & Schuster, Limited, UBS Publishers' Distributors
- Editions
- 307
- Language
- yid, ukr, heb, Italian
- ISBN
- 9798684446610
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“Érase un viejo que solia ir de pesca solo en su bote en el Gulf Stream, y desde hace ya ochenta y cuatro dias no pescaba nada.”
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction. Since his death three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works have been published. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he worked as a reporter but within months he left for the Italian front to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He was seriously injured and returned home within the year. He married his first wife Hadley Richardson in 1922 and moved to Paris, where
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