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The Old Man and the Sea

  • Ernest Hemingway

3.89

209 ratings

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. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.

Genres

  • American Sea stories
  • Male friendship
  • Fishers
  • Fiction
  • Ameriška književnost
  • American fiction
  • Ancianos
  • Open Library Staff Picks
  • Fishing stories
  • Pescadores
  • Older men
  • open_syllabus_project
  • Kratka proza
  • Friendship
  • Amistad entre hombres
  • Ficción
  • Bildungsromans
  • American literature
  • Libros en letra grande
  • Alegorías
  • Historias de aventuras
  • Novela
  • Literatura estadounidense
  • Novela estadounidense
  • Reading Level-Grade 11
  • Reading Level-Grade 12
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Cuba, fiction
  • Friendship, fiction
  • Old man and the sea (Hemingway, Ernest)
  • Hombres
  • Amistad
  • Allegories
  • Metaphorical tales
  • Big game fishing
  • Aged men
  • Psychology
  • History and criticism
  • American Fishing stories
  • Older men in literature
  • Translations from English
  • Chinese fiction
  • Marlins
  • Courage in men
  • Pêcheurs
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Hommes âgés
  • Sea stories
  • Translations into Swahili
  • Swahili fiction
  • Fishers--cuba--fiction
  • Older men--cuba--fiction
  • Friendship--fiction
  • Fishers--fiction
  • Older men--fiction
  • Male friendship--fiction
  • Ps3515.e37 o4 1995
  • 813/.52
  • Taoism
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About the author

  • Ernest Hemingway

    21 July 1899 - 2 July 1961

    3.82

    386 ratings · 1121 works

Editions

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    1-p'an

    Munhak tongne

    2012

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    Guang dong shi jie tu shu chu ban gong si

    2009

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    Ji lin ren min chu ban she

    2010

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    Creative Books

    2015

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Simon & Schuster, Limited

2002

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    HarperAu

    Jun 19, 1992

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    Er ban

    Ya shu tang wen hua chu ban, Zhao ri wen hua zong jing xiao

    2011

  • Edition cover

    Benediction Classics

    Aug 24, 2016

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    Benediction Books

    Aug 24, 2016

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    Scribner

    Jul 21, 2020

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    Arrow Books

    1993

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    Shang hai shi jie tu shu chu ban gong si

    2010

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    Franklin Library

    1985

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    Bod kyi dus bab (Tibet Times)

    2011

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    Kultura

    1966

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    Tanzania Pub. House

    1981

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    Scribner

    1980

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    Atour Publications

    2011

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Charles Scribner's Sons

    Jun 01, 1952

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Simon & Schuster, Limited

    2014

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2020

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    Simon & Schuster, Limited

    2011

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    Charles Scribner's & Sons, Brand: Scribner Library

    Oct 01, 1979

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    Simon & Schuster, Limited

    2011

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Scribner

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2020

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    Independently Published

    2020

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    Kānūn-i Maʻrifat

    1962

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    Der Ḳṿal

    1958

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    Scribner

    2020

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    Independently Published

    2020

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    Simon & Schuster, Limited

    2014