The Old Man and the Sea

Description

Product ID:	9780099273967
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	The Old Man and the Sea
Authors:	Author: Ernest Hemingway
Page Count:	112
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Description:	Select Guide Rating 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. The book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature ''It''s silly not to hope. It''s a sin he thought'' 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. ''The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently'' Sunday Times ''The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish'' Guardian
Imprint Name:	Vintage Classics
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	1999-02-04

Weight	86 g
Dimensions	193 × 119 × 8 mm