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The Old Man and the Sea

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784875947

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • RRP: £9.99

The Old Man and the Sea

  • Vintage Classics Most Red Series

RELEASED 25/06/2020

On the occasion of VINTAGE's 30th anniversary rediscover the ten bestselling Vintage Classics of all time in beautiful new editions...

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.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a keystone book in Hemingway receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784875947

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • RRP: £9.99

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 Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

Ernest Hemingway

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