Franklin Library: ERNEST HEMINGWAY: THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA: CUBA: FISHING

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea," a Limited edition, Portrait of Ernest Heminway by his friend, WALDO PIERCE, printed with permission from MARY HEMINGWAY, Illustrated by Daniel Schwartz, one of the PULITZER PRIZE series, published in 1975. Bound in royal blue leather, the book has moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Ernest Hemingway, who lived from 1899-1961, was married four times; the second wife's family lived in PIGGOTT, ARKANSAS. He grew up in Oak Forrest, Illinois, the son of a medical doctor and a musical mother. As an adult, he was an ambulance drive in WW I and later lived in Paris, Kansas City, Key West, Florida, CUBA, Idaho, and Arkansas and he traveled all over the world. "The Old Man and the Sea," a short novel written in 1951 in the Bahamas, and published in 1952, was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, the novel tells the story of an aging, experienced fisherman, Santiago, and a large marlin. Santiago has gone 84 days without catching a fish. He is so unlucky that his young apprentice, Manolin, has been forbidden by his parents to sail with him and has been told instead to fish with successful fishermen. The boy visits Santiago's shack each night, hauling his fishing gear, preparing food, talking about American baseball and his favorite player, JOE DIMAGGIO. Santiago tells Manolin that on the next day, he will venture far out into the Gulf Stream, north of Cuba in the Straits of Florida to fish, confident that his unlucky streak is near its end. On the eighty-fifth day of his unlucky streak, Santiago takes his skiff into the Gulf Stream, sets his lines and, by noon, has his bait taken by a big fish that he is sure is a marlin. Unable to haul in the great marlin, Santiago is instead pulled by the marlin, and two days and nights pass with Santiago holding onto the line. Though wounded by the struggle and in pain, Santiago expresses a compassionate appreciation for his adversary, often referring to him as a brother. He also determines that, because of the fish's great dignity, no one shall deserve to eat the marlin. On the third day, the fish begins to circle the skiff. Santiago, worn out and almost delirious, uses all his remaining strength to pull the fish onto its side and stab the marlin with a harpoon. Santiago straps the marlin to the side of his skiff and heads home, thinking about the high price the fish will bring him at the market and how many people he will feed. On his way in to shore, sharks are attracted to the marlin's blood. Santiago kills a great mako shark with his harpoon, but he loses the weapon. He makes a new harpoon by strapping his knife to the end of an oar to help ward off the next line of sharks; five sharks are slain and many others are driven away. But the sharks keep coming, and by nightfall the sharks have almost devoured the marlin's entire carcass, leaving a skeleton consisting mostly of its backbone, its tail and its head. Santiago knows that he is entirely unlucky now, and defeated now, but not when he caught the marlin, tells the sharks of how they have killed his dreams. Upon reaching the shore before dawn on the next day, Santiago struggles to his shack, carrying the heavy mast on his shoulder, leaving the fish head and the bones on the shore. Once home, he slumps onto his bed and falls into a deep sleep. and at his injured hands. Manolin brings him newspapers and coffee. When the old man wakes, they promise to fish together once again. Upon his return to sleep, Santiago dreams of his youth — of lions on an African beach. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. 125 pages. I offer Combined shipping.

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Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

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