Understanding the Old Man and the Sea: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

by Patricia Dunlavy Valenti

Book Overview

Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and specifically cited by the Swedish Academy when Hemingway received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, The Old Man and the Sea remains one of the author's most beloved works. This casebook helps readers interpret and appreciate the thematic concerns of the novel, as well as the contextual issues it explores.

Topic chapters provide information on Cuba, including its natural geography,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313316317
• ISBN13: 9780313316319
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"