Book · 1952 · Fiction

The Old Man and the Sea

Name: The Old Man and the Sea
Author: Ernest Hemingway

Simon & Schuster · 127 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Eighty-four days without a fish, and an old Cuban fisherman hooks a marlin longer than his boat and is towed out to sea. A man can be destroyed but not defeated, Santiago thinks.

Genre

Tragedy Parable

Medium

Novella

Subject

Sea story The individual Man vs. nature Honor

Setting

Cuba

Time

1952Depicts 1950s

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