The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway · 1952 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Santiago has gone eighty-four days without a fish, and the boy who used to sail with him has been put on a luckier boat by his parents. On the eighty-fifth day he rows far out past the other skiffs and hooks a marlin longer than his own boat. Defeat indistinguishable from triumph.

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Lineage

• parallels ↑ Moby-Dick
  Herman Melville · 1851 CE · Novel
• parallels ↑ The Book of Job
  Anonymous · c. 500 BCE · Scripture

Attributes

Closest analogues

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• Island of the Blue Dolphins
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