The Old Man and the Sea Unabridged Audio CD

januarysend said A New Discovery with Every Reading. I have read this book several times, and each time I find some new meaning, something deeper than I had noticed before. No writer I know of could reach so far into the hearts of this boy and this old fisherman as Ernest Hemingway. The story speaks to something human that is indescribable, too deep for words. This time I was struck by th. KFinFL said Still great after all these years. This was one of about Still great after all these years This was one of about 3 required readings l read back in high school without resorting to the cheater book, 'The Monarch Guide' It is short enough to read in two nights even being the slow reader l am As a high school kid you can appreciate the 'learning from the old guy' thing going on with 'the boy' in the story l have always thought . required readings l read back in high school without resorting to the cheater book, 'The Monarch Guide' It is short enough to read in two nights even being the slow reader l am As a high school kid you can appreciate the 'learning from the old guy' thing going on with 'the boy' in the story l have always thought . "A fish story" according to Becket. I am a writer and I write nautical and historical fiction. I read to learn the craft of fiction. When I write from a ship's master's point of view so much of the "action" is actually in the ship master's mind rather than physical action. "The Old Man and the Sea" is a masterpiece of writing about human introspection and internal dialog.

Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature.. The Old Man and the Seais one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss

He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. --James Marcus. Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an