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The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway · 1952

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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.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisadventureadventureMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisCubaCubaMore like thisLess of thisMexicoMexicoMore like thisLess of thishigh schoolhigh schoolMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adultyoung adult
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short · 132 pages
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