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The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition

Name: The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition
Rating: 5 (13 reviews)
Author: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9781476787848

Ernest Hemingway · 1996 · 160 pages

Ernest Hemingway’s most beloved and popular novel ever, with millions of copies sold—now featuring early drafts and supplementary material as well as a personal foreword by the only living son of the author, Patrick Hemingway, and an introduction by the author’s grandson Seán Hemingway.

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, down on his luck, 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 magnificent twentieth-century classic. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Jordan Peterson
“The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway a book from my great books list”↗
Phil Keoghan
“Every year, I read The Old Man and the Sea. It’s so easy to read, and it has such a strong message.”↗
Ray Bradbury
“When the novella was first published in Time magazine, Bradbury and a couple of friends went to the printing plant to get copies straight off the press: “We carried them off to a bar that was still open, and we sat and read The Old Man and the Sea, and we talked about Papa and how much we loved him.””↗
Cillian Murphy
“It’s always the beautiful simplicity of this story that transports me. Not a word is wasted. For such a short novel, it kind of approaches perfection in storytelling for me. Hemingway apparently said of the novel that it was the ‘best I can write ever for all of my life.'”↗
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