Premium Content Hemingway’s Fight with Old Age
By Jessie Yu - June 15, 2009
The Old Man and the Sea is a novella that “should be read easily and simply and seem short,” Hemingway writes in a letter to his friend Charles Scribner, “yet have all the dimensions of the visible world and the world of a man’s spirit” (738).
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