The Old Man and the Sea
Series: Ernest Hemingway in Arrow
Publisher: Arrow Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780099908401
Copyright date: 1952
Subjects: American fiction (fictional works by one author); Cuba, fiction
First sentence: He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
Description: Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.
Notes: An Arrow Classic
First published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1952