The Old Man and the Sea Unabridged Audio CD
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0857204521 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 3 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A New Discovery with Every Reading" according to januarysend. I have read this book several times, and each time I find some new meaning, something deeper than I had noticed before. No writer I know of could reach so far into the hearts of this boy and this old fisherman as Ernest Hemingway. The story speaks to something human that is indescribable, too deep for words. This time I was struck by the clash of the old man's excruciating fishing experience with the indifference of the waiter at the end, who when asked by a tourist what that wreckage of bones is, floating out there,. "Still great after all these years" according to KFinFL. This was one of about Still great after all these years This was one of about 3 required readings l read back in high school without resorting to the cheater book, 'The Monarch Guide' It is short enough to read in two nights even being the slow reader l am As a high school kid you can appreciate the 'learning from the old guy' thing going on with 'the boy' in the story l have always thought on the many impressions l got when l read it the first time, and l decided that l should really read it again from the perspective of my older age. Now, at 65 yr old and having gotten . required readings l read back in high school without resorting to the cheater book, 'The Monarch Guide' It is short enough to read in two nights even being the slow reader l am As a high school kid you can appreciate the 'learning from the old guy' thing going on with 'the boy' in the story l have always thought on the many impressions l got when l read it the first time, and l decided that l should really read it again from the perspective of my older age. Now, at 65 yr old and having gotten . A fish story Becket I am a writer and I write nautical and historical fiction. I read to learn the craft of fiction. When I write from a ship's master's point of view so much of the "action" is actually in the ship master's mind rather than physical action. "The Old Man and the Sea" is a masterpiece of writing about human introspection and internal dialog. It's amazing to me because Hemingway's use of English is terse but exceedingly fine honed. I do fish with a fly rod and enjoy the solitude that provides. I think I am very qualified t
--James Marcus. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and
Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature.. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. The Old Man and the Seais one of Hemingway's most enduring works