The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway, in 1951 in Cuba and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who...
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The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway, in 1951 in Cuba and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.《老人与海》（The Old Man and the Sea）是海明威于1951年在古巴写的一篇中篇小说，于1952年出版。《老人与海》是海明威最著名的作品之一，它围绕一位老年古巴渔夫，与一条巨大的马林鱼在离岸很远的湾流中搏斗。《老人与海》奠定了海明威在世界文学中的突出地位，对于他1954年获得诺贝尔文学奖也起了重要作用。后有同名电影、动画、歌曲等作品。
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B006P91YWI
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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