by Ernest Hemingway · ARROW BOOKS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099908401
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«The Old Man and the Sea» is the novel by Ernest Hemingway published by Arrow Books in paperback (112 pages, in English).
Set in the Gulf Stream off Havana, the story follows Santiago, an old fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without catching anything, and a young boy who accompanies him. When at last a huge fish takes his hook, Santiago engages in an exhausting struggle against the sea and against his own strength. This fable about perseverance, dignity and man's relationship with nature was the book that established Hemingway as one of the greats of modern literature.
The novel is considered a classic of twentieth-century American literature. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 for this work and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. This copy corresponds to the 1994 edition published by Arrow Books.
For readers looking for a short, intense classic of American fiction, with direct and symbolic prose.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
