The Old Man and the Sea

About this book

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.

Subjects

  • aged men
  • alegorías
  • allegories
  • american fiction
  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • american fishing stories
  • american literature
  • american sea stories
  • ameriška književnost
  • amistad
  • amistad entre hombres
  • ancianos
  • big game fishing
  • bildungsromans
  • chinese fiction
  • courage in men
  • cuba, fiction
  • ficción
  • fiction
  • fishers
  • fishing stories
  • friendship
  • friendship, fiction
  • historias de aventuras
  • history and criticism
  • hombres
  • hommes âgés
  • kratka proza
  • libros en letra grande
  • literatura estadounidense
  • male friendship
  • marlins
  • metaphorical tales
  • novela
  • novela estadounidense
  • older men
  • older men in literature
  • old man and the sea (hemingway, ernest)
  • open library staff picks
  • open_syllabus_project
  • pêcheurs
  • pescadores
  • psychology
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • romans, nouvelles
  • sea stories
  • swahili fiction
  • translations from english
  • translations into swahili