The Old Man And The Sea Scribner 2020 The Hemingway Library Edition Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway 9781476770185, 1476770182, B08ZYC9QCL instant download after payment.

It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic.

"The excitement and tension of the old man’s adventure, the magnificence of the great marlin and the beauty of days and nights alone on the Gulf Stream are all well conveyed in The Old Man and the Sea. Mr Hemingway has always excelled in describing physical adventure and its emotional atmosphere of it. And many of his stories have glorified courage in the face of danger. This one does, too, for the old man is the very embodiment of dogged courage."  -   Orville Prescott, The New York Times

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899.  His first two published works were Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time but it was the satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, that established his name more widely. His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books; Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell To Arms. His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators but no equals.