The Old Man and the Sea
It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman 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...
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It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman 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.
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Format: Leather Bound
Publisher: The Franklin Library
Pages no: 125
Edition language: English
Der alte Fischer Santiago hat schon tagelang kein Glück. Lange Zeit hinweg ist ihm kein Fisch ins Netz gegangen. Trotzdem ist er optimistisch und ahnt nicht, dass ihm der Fang seines Lebens bevorsteht.Es ist schwierig hierzu eine Rezension zu schreiben, ohne nicht zu viel von der Geschichte zu verra...
Please note that I gave this book 4.5 stars and rounded it up to 5 stars on Goodreads.I have to say that this is a great little short story that you can finish within an hour. Besides the story becoming slightly repetitive after the old man goes out to try his hand at fishing, everything else in the...
I was going to do something really naughty. I read this book years ago in High School and wasn't particularly impressed namely because my English teacher and I never saw eye to eye; I preferred fantasy books to modern literature; and as far as I was concerned this was simply about a guy who got into...
This is the book of a friendship between a man and a boy, the book of the courage and the battle where the hope survive amongst the deepest misery. The language is mainly sustained by the action but Hemingway share as well the fisher's intimate thoughts, his internal conflicts for his 'friend' fish....
I decided to read this book last night for the Popsugar challenge and I finished it within a few hours. There are some great imagery described by the author in this book, although I am not sure I totally grasp the deeper meanings that are contained within the story. I enjoyed the story in itself, ev...
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