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CliffsNotes on Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

by Gary Carey, Jeanne Salladé Criswell

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This is the Nobel Prize-winning author2s powerful story of an old man who conquers a magnificent fish, endures its heartbreaking loss, and rises gallantly above his defeat. Though it is a small book, it is a jewel.

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Standard study guide to The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

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Published: 1973
Genres: Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 813.52
LCC: PS3515 .E37 .O43

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