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Loading... The Old Man and The Sea (1952)by Ernest Hemingway
  
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 “the drone of the pastiche parable, wordy and sentimental”  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.  Within the sharp restrictions imposed by the very nature of his story Mr. Hemingway has written with sure skill. Here is the master technician once more at the top of his form, doing superbly what he can do better than anyone else. Belongs to Publisher SeriesBiblioteca Folha (11) Biblioteca Universal Planeta (Fábula, 36) — 23 more Columna Jove (29) Delfinserien (225) Gallimard, Folio (1972, 7) Gallimard, Soleil (62) Keltainen kirjasto (14) Lanterne (L 145) Medusa Mondadori (306) Gli Oscar Mondadori (Classici moderni, 21) rororo (328) 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 Has the adaptationIs abridged inHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a student's study guide
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, 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. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature. No library descriptions found. 
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I love the focus on the details, the simplicity, the old man as a character and the way this book makes me feel hopeful and sad at the same time.
There is so much to take away from this story.
Life can be hard and also good.
"He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long-gone pride and he put it against the fish's agony." (