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The 1952 classic novella from EH was smooth and quickly read. Symbolizing so much it was more a powerful story of what man must do during his days on earth. To work and hope knowing that in the end it will not be enough and to keep working anyway because that is all we can do. I needed a clean read and EH always provides this literary sorbet. Read in the Scribner's classic Collier Books edition for the 3rd time. Great cover. ( ) “When will this bad dream end,” the woman thought as the faded star’s voice droned on and on about the big fish that pulled the old man and his boat through the blue water. “This is as bad as A Farewell to Arms, but at least it is not as long.” The woman woke from her daze as the small dog licked her hand. The dog’s eyes said to her “I am still here, and I want to go out.” The woman rose from her chair, hooked the dog to his leash, walked out into the bright sun and the green grass, and shut the door. Such a spare masterpiece. Hemingway's sentences are so clean and direct. He pulls us into Santiago's experience, sliding smoothly between summary, private thoughts, action and dialog without a stumble. Santiago is heroic, but doomed---by his age, his pride, and by nature (who always has an upper hand in life). Despite his failure to bring the fish in, his solitary struggle---his grit as he improvises to meet successive challenges---defines his heroism.
The Old Man and the Sea has almost none of the old Hemingway truculence, the hard-guy sentimentality that sometimes gives even his most devoted admirers twinges of discomfort. As a story, it is clean and straight. Those who admire craftsmanship will be right in calling it a masterpiece... it is a poem of action, praising a brave man, a magnificent fish and the sea, with perhaps a new underlying reverence for the Creator of such wonders. It is a tale superbly told and in the telling Ernest Hemingway uses all the craft his hard, disciplined trying over so many years has given him. Belongs to Publisher SeriesBiblioteca Folha (11) Biblioteca Universal Planeta (Fábula, 36) Bibliothek Suhrkamp (214) — 27 more Columna Jove (29) Delfinserien (225) Gallimard, Folio (7-6487) Gallimard, Soleil (62) Keltainen kirjasto (14) Lanterne (L 145) Medusa [Mondadori] (306) Reclams Universal-Bibliothek (9075) rororo (328) A tot vent (125) Is contained inFive Novels: The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / To Have and Have Not / The Old Man and the Sea / For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms / For Whom The Bell Tolls / The Old Man and the Sea / The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (indirect) For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Fiesta / The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber / Across the River and into the Trees / The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Book-of-the-Month-Club Set of 6: A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway - Four Novels - Complete and Unabridged: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Set (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, To Have and Have Not, For Whom the Bell Tolls) by Ernest Hemingway Has the adaptationIs abridged inInspiredHas as a studyHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML: 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 magnificent twentieth-century classic. .No library descriptions found.
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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