The Old Man and the Sea
By Ernest Hemingway, 1952
The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 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 an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Though it has been the subject of disparate criticism, it is noteworthy in twentieth century fiction and in Hemingway's canon, reaffirming his worldwide literary prominence and significant in his selection for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954... Hemingway is sometimes called by his familiar nickname "Papa"... His birthdate is sometimes listed in error as 1898. According to a 1954 article in the New York Times, "In most reference books and in his own conversation he is one year older because he gave 1898 as his birth date when he tried to enlist [in the army] early in 1917, and stuck to that date ever since"... Hemingway's father also committed suicide, shooting himself with a Civil War pistol in 1928.
Works
Novels/Novellas
(1925) The Torrents of Spring
(1926) The Sun Also Rises
(1929) A Farewell to Arms
(1937) To Have and Have Not
(1940) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1950) Across the River and Into the Trees
(1952) The Old Man and the Sea
(1962) Adventures of a Young Man
(1970) Islands in the Stream
(1986) The Garden of Eden
Nonfiction
(1932) Death in the Afternoon
(1935) Green Hills of Africa
(1960) The Dangerous Summer
(1964) A Moveable Feast
(2003) Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
(2005) Under Kilimanjaro
Short story collections
(1923) Three Stories and Ten Poems
(1925) In Our Time
(1927) Men Without Women
(1932) The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(1933) Winner Take Nothing
(1938) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
(1947) The Essential Hemingway
(1953) The Hemingway Reader
(1972) The Nick Adams Stories
(1976) The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
(1995) Collected Stories
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