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This digital document is an article from Europe, 1450 to 1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 312 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Explores European history from 1450-1789, from the print revolution to the French Revolution. Includes articles written by eminent scholars covering major topics in art, government, and education as well as providing biographical entries on key figures of the period. Also covers topics specific to the era, such as apocalypticism, guilds, food riots, royal mistresses and lovers, the Spanish Inquisition, Utopia and others. ... Read more

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114 page magazine from the publishers of Penthouse aimed at the women's market! This issue includes an interview with Karen Black and Donald Sutherland, lots of stories, sexy pictorials, and much more! ... Read more

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Composed of scholarly commentary, film clips, readings, reenactments, and archival materials, this program thoroughly analyzes Erich Maria Remarques international best-seller All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque biographers Julie Gilbert and Thomas Thornton; Cambridge Universitys Jay Winter; All Quiet scholar/translator Brian Murdoch; Philip Caputo, author of A Rumor of War; and others provide insights into what has been called the greatest antiwar novel ever written. Additional topics include the birth of total war, the effects of modern warfare on the body and mind, and the post-war rise of Nazism. A Discovery University Production. ... Read more

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This is the timeless classic that ensured Ernest Hemingway a place as one of the great American writers. First published in 1952, this legendary novella continues to enthrall generations. Because of its impact on literature, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded special recognition in the citation accompanying the authors Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Literate, yet stunningly powerful in its simplicity, The Old Man and the Sea tells the tragic and timeless story of one mans indomitable spirit and to the enduring dignity of the common man. ... Read more

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Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big-game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

Timeless
I have always loved this timeless novel.I have listened to it more than once when I am on lengthy drives.

Very descriptive and compelling.A must-read!!
Never in my life has a book been able to portray such detail using a such a simplistic style of writing.Hemingway writes in such a way that you feel you are on the skiff with Santiago as he is struggle with this great fish...his brother.The 127 pages in this book and the hour that it took to read it made me ponder my own tumultuous life experiences and how they made me grow as a person.Kudos Hemingway.

Definitely a slow moving plot, like an old man would be
Although I did find the "waiting for interesting things to happen" bit of this read to be tedious, I think that is what Hemingway was trying to portray...how much patience and tedium a fisherman must endure just for those brief moments of excitement when he "outwits" a fish.The sad irony of course is that he himself is then easily outwitted by the sharks.It is depressing how all our hard work and accomplishment can be so quickly eaten away by theives.I agree that the reading was mediocre.

HMMMMM.....
I couldn't finish the book coz it was soooooo slow.Sutherland attempts to use exclamations and such but it is just monotonously(?) written.I get the idea behind it and all but can't understand why this is THE book for Hemingway. Ah, but I got through it.

throw away your self-help books, it's all right here
call me a throwback, but this slender novel contains more wisdom than entire libraries of self-help books. hemingway tells the story of an old cuban fisherman on his most memorable trip with characteristic simplicity. the man's respect for the fish, courage and inner battle are a fitting finale to hemingway's career. there is more here about character and what life is about than a thousand self-help books.
i listened to the audio version and donald sutherland's performance is the best reading i've heard. ... Read more