![]() ![]() The Old Man and the Sea had been in Hemingway's mind for years. He began The Old Man and the Sea to prove that not only was he still in the writing game, he had yet to produce his best work. ![]() People were saying that Hemingway was "through" as a writer. To make matters worse, his 1950 novel Across the River and Into the Trees was panned by critics. His last successful book, For Whom the Bell Tolls, came out in 1940. ![]() When The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952, Hemingway hadn’t written a significant literary work for over a decade. Ernest Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea to prove he wasn’t finished as a writer. Many consider this spare novel to be Hemingway’s best work. Defeated, he returns home with the fish’s skeleton attached to the boat. The simple story is about an old man who catches a giant fish in the waters off Cuba, only to have it devoured by sharks. The Old Man and the Sea was the last major work Ernest Hemingway published in his lifetime. ![]()
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