The Old Man and the Sea

Good

Small book and price is just $4 but sold for 8$ in Amazon UAE. Poor quality print and less pages…

This tale of an aged fisherman intent on proving he could still catch “the big-one” earned Hemingway a most well-deserved Pulitzer Prize. Capturing the writer’s trademark theme of challenge – be it physical or moral – the story features his crisp, sparse writing style that keeps the reader fully engaged to the end. Hemingway has weaved a fable of remarkable strength and beauty that relies on just three characters: The old man, a young boy who prays fervently for the old man to succeed in his quest, and a giant fish. To those who may claim it to be boring, uninteresting, predictable I say pish-posh (or more directly, don’t be foolish!) This is a perfectly crafted story that led to Hemingway being awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature. Those who dismiss it as anything less have most assuredly never challenged themselves to seek success against odds deemed by others as unobtainable. This is a great book; great literature, and well deserves the title of “Classic”.

The cover claims that the book is Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea," but when I opened it up, the actual contents is "Revelations of Divine Love" by Julian of Norwich - a Christian text. I guess Benediction Classics is running some sort of religious scam, trying to trick people into reading Christian texts by any means necessary.

Great prose. The writer sort of almost inconsiderately seems to use so many fishing related words but it works.

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Yet another Amazon find!