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The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Published:18th Aug '94

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Regarded by many as the simplest and greatest story he ever wrote - from the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms

The old man has gone 84 days without catching a fish, everything about him is old except his eyes, they are the colour of the sea. He finally catches a fish, but this is no ordinary fish, nor is his fierce and determined response.

One of the greatest novels of the 20th century by one of the greatest writers in American history - THE BOOK THAT WON ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish.

Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives. Not a single word is superfluous in this widely admired masterpiece, which once and for all established his place as one of the giants of modern literature.

It is unsurpassed in Hemingway's oeuvre. Every word tells and there is not a word too many
A quite wonderful example of narrative art. The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish * Guardian *
The best story Hemingway has written...No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently. * Sunday Times *

  • Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1953

ISBN: 9780099908401

Dimensions: 177mm x 110mm x 7mm

Weight: 67g

112 pages