The Old Man and the Sea.
"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated": First Edition of The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Item Number: 3973
New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1952.
First edition. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some rubbing to the crown of the spine.
Upon its publication in 1952 by Charles Scribner's Sons, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. The novel reinvigorated Hemingway's literary reputation. It initiated a reexamination of his entire body of work. The novel was received with such alacrity, that it restored many readers' confidence in Hemingway's capability as an author. Indeed, the publisher even wrote on an early dust jacket, calling the novel a "new classic," and it was compared by many critics to such revered works as William Faulkner's "The Bear" and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
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