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Cover of “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway · 1952

128 pages

An aging Cuban fisherman, Santiago, has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish. When a huge marlin finally takes his line far out to sea, he must hold on through a long, painful contest of endurance and will.

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Nautical Adventure, Survival, Philosophical

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