The Old Man and the Sea

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The Old Man and the Sea

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Author(s):

Ernest Hemingway

Copyright:

First Published:

1952

Genre(s):

Classics; Fiction

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Internal ID:

25063

Series:

No series

Dedication:

To Charlie Scribner and to Max Perkins

First Sentence:

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

The old man was dreaming about the lions.

Comments:

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Added: 21-Jan-2026

Last Updated: 21-Jan-2026

01-Jan-1988

Books on Tape

Book on CD

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jan-1988

Format:

Book on CD

Length:

2 hrs 25 min (155 pages)

Catalog ID:

4948-CD

Internal ID:

74105

Publisher:

Books on Tape

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Alexander Adams - Narration

The Old Man and the Sea
By Ernest Hemingway
Approx. 2 Hours / 2 Compact Discs
Read by Alexander Adams

Published in 1952 and awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.

Completed after a 10-year literary drought, it was his last major work of fiction. Written in Hemingway's characteristically spare prose, it concerns a magnificent fish after weeks of not catching anything. After three days of playing the... managers to reel it in to the harbor. Santiago is spent... other fishermen marvel at the size of the skeleton...

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

Renewed © 1980 by Mary Hemingway ℗ 1988 by Books on Tape, Inc.
2 CDs

Back cover partially cover with a sticker...

01-Jan-1988
Books on Tape
Book on CD

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