The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
An aging Cuban fisherman struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream, isolated from the world and from human help. For days, he fights the marlin alone, admiring its strength, dignity, and faithfulness to its identity—its destiny is as true as his as a fisherman. He finally kills the marlin, but sharks attack and devour it before he can return to the shore. The fisherman returns home empty-handed but remains undefeated, having proven his abilities to himself.
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- Published
- 1952
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 120-140
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- De oude man en de zee
- Den Gamle Mand og Havet
- Den gamle mannen och havet
- Den gamle mannen og havet
- Der Alte Mann Und Das Meer
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- 3rd on Quintessential American Fiction, According to the Rest of the World (Literary Hub)
- 6th on Biblioteca (Argentina)
- 8th on The Celebrity Reading List (Gardiner Public Library)
- 20th on Big Read (Hungarian) (Hungaria)
- 28th on The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians (Bookman.com)
- 32nd on Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (Radcliffe Publishing Course)
- 34th on Our Users' Top 100 Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
- 50th on The Complete 500: OCLC (OCLC)
- 55th on Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century (themodernnovel.com)
- 62nd on TrueLit's Top 100 Favorite Books (2023) (/r/TrueLit)
- 82nd on The 500 best books of all time from Culture Café users (Culture Café)
- 83rd on The Books That Built The French (TNS-Sofres/SNCF–Lire)
- 91st on The 101 Favorite Novels of 'Le Monde' Readers (Le Monde)
- 173rd on The Big Read (BBC)
- 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List (1,000 Books to Read Before You Die(Book))
- 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (The Guardian)
- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
- 100 Books, 100 Companions (Zeit Online)
- 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (UK))
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Reading List (Thomas C. Foster)
- Inteliquest's World's 100 Greatest Books of All-Time (InteliQuest)
- Masterpieces of World Literature (Frank N. Magill)
- Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 (Anthony Burges (Book))
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Pulitzer Prize)
- Recommended Reading List for Students (China 2020) (Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China)
- Select 100 (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
- The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years (Parade Magazine)
- The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics (Book)
- The Modern Library: The Two Hundred Best Novels in English Since 1950 (The Modern Library (Book))
- Top 100 Works in World Literature (Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute)
- Världsbiblioteket (The World Library) (Tidningen Boken)
- What are the Goncourt Winners’ Favorite Books? (Télérama)
- ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher (Die Zeit)