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The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

by Ernest Hemingway

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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.

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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. ( )
  JBreedlove | May 17, 2024 |
“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. ( )
  cbl_tn | May 4, 2024 |
First read more than 50 years ago as an 11-year old 6th grader. I was worried by the negative reviews here that my loving memories of this story would be crushed so avoided it for several months.

Having now completed it for the 2nd time, I am here to say I STILL LOVE IT! ( )
  Loolaw-Reads | Apr 1, 2024 |
Brilliant! How can a book so short be so captivating? Simple: it is a masterpiece of literary excellence. ( )
  Booktworead | Mar 18, 2024 |
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. ( )
  brianstagner | Mar 15, 2024 |
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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.
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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.
 

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Hemingway, Ernestprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dutourd, JeanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Heston, CharltonReadersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Horschitz-Horst, AnnemarieTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Horschitz-Horst, AnnemarieTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Jaworski, PhilippeTraductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lewis, SinclairIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Marantonio, UgoIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Moehlenkamp, KevinCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Oeser, Hans-ChristianEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Petrov, AlexandreCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pivano, FernandaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sheppard, RaymondIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sickles, NoëlIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sutherland, DonaldNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Tainio, TaunoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Tunnicliffe, C. F.Illustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Veegens-Latorf, E.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Werumeus Buning, J.W.F.Prefacesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
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Classic Literature. Fiction. Literature. 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.

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Dopo ottantaquattro giorni durante i quali non è riuscito a pescare nulla, il vecchio Santiago trova la forza di riprendere il mare: questa nuova battuta di pesca rinnova il suo apprendistato di pescatore e sigilla la sua simbolica iniziazione. Nella disperata caccia a un enorme pesce spada dei Caraibi. nella lotta quasi a mani nude contro gli squali che un pezzo alla volta gli strappano la preda, lasciandogli solo il simbolo della vittoria e della maledizione finalmente sconfitta. Santiago stabilisce, forse per la prima volta, una vera fratellanza con le forze incontenibili della natura. E, soprattutto, trova dentro di sé il segno e la presenza del proprio coraggio, la giustificazione di tutta una vita.
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Old man goes fishing
Out for many days and nights
Returns with nothing

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