When The Old Man and the Sea was published in
1952, it was instantly hailed as a classic. The triumphant yet tragic story of
an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal – a relentless, agonizing battle
with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream – it has the simplicity of a
fable, the significance of a parable and the drama of an epic. Among the finest
in English literature, Hemingway’s description of fishing and the teeming
tropical life abounding in the Gulf Stream provide a setting of warmth and
shimmering beauty for the struggle between man against sea and man against
fate. A story of grace and courage, of heroism and pity, The old Man and the Sea received special recognition in the
citation accompanying Hemingway’s Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 and
remains one of his most popular works today.
Donald
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