Pure English Famous Works Graded Reading Series---The Old Man and the Sea

Author: (American) Ernest Hemingway
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The story of "The Old Man and the Sea" is quite simple. Old fisherman Santiago goes to sea to fish, but he catches nothing for 84 days. Yet he does not lose confidence and continues to go out. After two days and two nights of hard struggle, he finally catches a rare big fish. On the way back, he encounters a school of sharks. Although he fights desperately, he is outnumbered and defeated. By the time he reaches the shore, the big fish is left with only a skeleton. Despite its simplicity, this story is profound, embodying Hemingway's philosophy of life and creative techniques, as well as being a novel that can be read from different perspectives or levels. "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952) depicts the indomitable spirit of a Cuban fisherman in the face of failure. The book won the Pulitzer Prize. Hemingway's works have a unique style, characterized not only by concise prose but also by vivid and lively language, greatly influencing the American literary world. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.