Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Hemingway library edition

Foreword by Patrick Hemingway--ix; Introduction by Seán Hemingway--xi; The Old Man and the Sea--1; Appendix I. "On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," Esquire, April 1936--83; Appendix II. Letter from Ernest Hemingway to Erl Roman, May 8, 1935--94; Appendix III. Ernest Hemingway's List of Principal Sharks in Cuban Waters--97; Appendix IV. "Pursuit as Happiness," a Previously Unpublished Short Story--101; Appendix V. Selected Edits from Ernest Hemingway's Typescript of The Old Man and the Sea--122; Appendix VI. Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech--130; Acknowledgments--132; Notes to the Introduction--134

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. 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. 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. 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

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