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The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1952
Pages
Pages 100

An old fisherman, eighty-four days without a catch, hooks a marlin bigger than his boat, fights it alone for days, and sails home with what the sharks leave him.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

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