The Old Man and the Sea Summary
Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway spent more than twenty years of his life living in Cuba. From his home in San Francisco de Paulo, Hemingway often visited Cojimar, the v... Read more

THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA “What I want you to do,” said Mr. George Wright, as he leaned towards the old sailor, “is to be an uncle to me.” “Aye, aye,” said the mystifi... Read more

Few writers have made their mark on American letters and American culture like Ernest Hemingway. Bursting on the American literary scene in 1925 with the publication of the short story collection In O... Read more

Ernest Hemingway was twenty-two years old when he arrived in Paris in late December 1921. He had taken part in World War I as a volunteer ambulance driver, and after his experiences in Europe during t... Read more

"Any man's life, told truly," Ernest Hemingway wrote in Death in the Afternoon (1932), "is a novel," and he strove to lead a life "better than any picaresque novel you ever read." The mention of hi... Read more

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