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The Old Man and the Sea

By Ernest Hemingway
Series: Brief Encounters
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Experience a brief encounter with Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winner and master of stripped-back prose, in this profound tale of endurance, dignity, and the eternal struggle between man and nature. Hemingway's enduring story of resilience and solitude: One of the most powerful tales of courage and endurance... Read More
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Experience a brief encounter with Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winner and master of stripped-back prose, in this profound tale of endurance, dignity, and the eternal struggle between man and nature.

Hemingway's enduring story of resilience and solitude: One of the most powerful tales of courage and endurance ever written.

An ageing fisherman sets out alone into the Gulf Stream, determined to prove that his strength and skill have not left him. When he hooks a great marlin, he begins a struggle that will test his pride and his place in the world. Simple, powerful and deeply moving, The Old Man and the Sea captures what it means to persist - even in the face of inevitable loss.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529982664

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 9.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 88g

Pages: 96

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About the Author

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. Their home was at Oak Park, a Chicago suburb. In 1917, Hemingway 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 where he renewed his earlier friendships with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Their encouragement and criticism were to play a valuable part in the formation of his style. Hemingway's first two published works were Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time but it was the satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, that established his name more widely. His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books; Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing and his writing reflected this. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in the bestseller, For Whom the Bell Tolls. His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators but no equals. 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.

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