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Classics1952

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

3.78831.2K ratings

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThis short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses — specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

Publisher
Scribner
Genres
Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, American

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