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The Old Man and the Sea

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099273967

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 85g

  • RRP: £7.99

The Old Man and the Sea

The book that won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish.

It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099273967

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 85g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • "It is unsurpassed in Hemingway's oeuvre. Every word tells and there is not a word too many"

    Anthony Burgess

  • "A quite wonderful example of narrative art. The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish"

    Guardian

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About the Author

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield – this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war – in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his craft. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

Ernest Hemingway

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