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The Old Man and the Sea

By Ernest Hemingway

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| Paperback | 9780099273967

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  • The Old Man and the Sea By Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway said, My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. And that best and simplest way, that tough, terse, two-fisted prose, had a profound and lasting influence on American writing. Hemingway wo ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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    Translated in italian, it's a masterpiece. Read in english, it's something more.

    There's something charming in the sound of this book; beyond its short sentences and its essential words, you could hear the waves crumbling and you could somehow taste Santiago's loneliness and willingness. Enchanting.

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    Giorgia-bi said on Jan 13, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • I recently read this in Complete Plain Words: A literary artist like Ernest Hemingway can achieve wonderful force and poignancy by limiting himself almost entirely to words of one or two syllables, but if the rest of us try to write like that we give the impression of grunting.

    It prompts me to r ... (continue)

    I recently read this in Complete Plain Words: A literary artist like Ernest Hemingway can achieve wonderful force and poignancy by limiting himself almost entirely to words of one or two syllables, but if the rest of us try to write like that we give the impression of grunting.

    It prompts me to revisit Hemingway, focusing on his "wonderful force and poignancy".

    The Old Man and the Sea is a book that I could never finish before. I remember borrowing it from the library, probably the same copy that is in my possession now, but did not manage to finish before it was called by another reader.

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    ausone said on Jan 19, 2012 | Add your feedback

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    By Hemingway.

    Towards the end of his life, [the author] wrote a novel so simple and yet so profound that it is perhaps one of the greatest stories ever told. In 1954 shortly after the publication of [this book] he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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    Your Sources said on Sep 14, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • The Old Man and the Sea is a classic of literature. It is a must-read for everyone, one of the most famous novels by Hemingway.
    However, I didn't like it. There are more things going on inside the protagonist's mind than in the story, which is, in poor words, about a man going fishing (a hug ... (continue)

    The Old Man and the Sea is a classic of literature. It is a must-read for everyone, one of the most famous novels by Hemingway.
    However, I didn't like it. There are more things going on inside the protagonist's mind than in the story, which is, in poor words, about a man going fishing (a huge fish, though), and then going home.
    It is often slow and tedious, with a lot of plain moments, during which the author introduces flash-backs of the fisherman's life.
    What I particularly liked, however, was the narrative style, typical of Hemingway, concise and synthetic, and the (rare) moments of fight between the old man and the sea: it can remember us how small we are, when facing the majesty of nature.

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    Codinh said on Mar 9, 2010 | Add your feedback

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