His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Hemingway was also awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. The publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of the greatest literary lights of the 20th century. He has been called “the most important author since Shakespeare,” by John O’Hara in The New York Times Book Review. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.Įrnest Hemingway did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic. 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.

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. Bright dust jacket has three small holes on front and spine. Book reviews cover the content, themes and worldviews of fiction books. Letterforms made out of ribbon, representing fish scales from one. First Edition 'A.' Book is good and tight but has two stains on page edges. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway has been reviewed by Focus on the. Concept book cover and internal pages for Ernest Hemingways book The Old Man and the Sea.

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