The Old Man and the Sea
The Hemingway Library Edition
1st Edition
Published on 21. July 2020
160 pages
978-1-4767-8786-2 (ISBN)
Description
Ernest Hemingway's most beloved and popular novel?now in a gorgeous new package designed for the modern reader.
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of American fiction. 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.
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. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of American fiction. 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.
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. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Appendix I: "On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," 'Esquire', April 1936
- Appendix II: Letter from Ernest Hemingway to Erl Roman, May 8, 1935
- Appendix III: Ernest Hemingway's List of Principal Sharks in Cuban Waters
- Appendix IV: "Pursuit as Happiness," A Previously Unpublished Short Story
- Appendix V: Selected Edits from Ernest Hemingway's Typescript of the 'Old Man and the Sea'
- Appendix VI: Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes to the Introduction
- Copyright
