The Old Man and the Sea

From The Publisher:
                         The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has
                         proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. 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 magnificnet twentieth-century classic.
 
 
 
 

Here are some helpful study aids and links:

This is a virtual tour of Hemingway's birthplace in Oak Park, Illinois and information about Hemingway's life.
 
 
 

Ernest Hemingway was one of the world’s ultimate literary travelers. He was a
a writer that we associate with many places around the globe. When we think of
Hemingway, we might think of Paris and The Sun Also Rises or Spain and For Whom the Bell Tolls, or Italy and A Farewell to Arms. Maybe we see him on
Kilimanjaro or in Cuba or maybe as a young man in the northern woods of
Michigan.  This site brings the settings of Hemingway's novels alive.
 

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