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Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1999

Subjects:

Aged men in literature, Hemingway, Ernest--1899-1961--Old man and the sea

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the ...
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The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic.
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Understanding the Old Man and the Sea: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

Book by Patricia Dunlavy Valenti; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

Aged Men In Literature, Fishing Stories, American--History And Criticism, Hemingway, Ernest--1899-1961--Old Man And The Sea, Hemingway, Ernest--1899-1961--Old Man And The Sea--Sources, Sea Stories, American--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Understanding The Old Man and the Sea The Greenwood Press Literature...Lester UNDERSTANDING The Old Man and the Sea A STUDENT CASEBOOK TO ISSUES...1945- Understanding The old man and the sea : a student casebook to issues...
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Three Famous Short Novels
Includes: Spotted Horses; Old Man; The Bear

Book by William Faulkner; Vintage Books, 1958

Subjects:

Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The Justice of the Peace was a neat, small, plump old man resembling a tender...attentive--at the neat immaculate old man sitting with his...starting, as an old man wakes from an old mans light sleep...his hands from the table and, looking...
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International Energy Policy, the Arctic and the Law of the Sea

Book by Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, Alexander S. Skaridov; Brill, 2005

Subjects:

Law Of The Sea--Congresses, Offshore Gas Industry--Arctic Ocean--Congresses, Offshore Gas Industry--Congresses, Offshore Gas Industry--Law And Legislation--Congresses, Offshore Oil Industry--Arctic Ocean--Congresses, Offshore Oil Industry--Congresses, Offshore Oil Industry--Law And Legislation--Congresses, Offshore Oil Well Drilling--Arctic Ocean--Congresses, Offshore Oil Well Drilling--Congresses, Offshore Oil Well Drilling--Law And Legislation--Congresses

Collections: Entire Library

...land and slow increases in output from old land oil fields, Chinas offshore petroleum...provided by increased offshore crude oil. The offshore petroleum industry is becoming...Bay, which is sometimes called the Bohai Sea, alone has proven oil reserves of 600...
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The Law of the Sea: An Historical Analysis of the 1982 Treaty and Its Rejection by the United States

Book by James B. Morell; McFarland, 1992

Subjects:

Marine Mineral Resources--Law And Legislation, Maritime Law, Ocean Bottom--Law And Legislation, United Nations Conference On The Law Of The Sea, United States--Foreign Relations--1981-1989

Collections: Entire Library

...prepared within the State Department. 130 At the United Nations, the United States declared that "what man finds beneath the sea may be used for international benefit -- without infringing on the sovereign rights of nations. . . . It is...

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Santiago at the Plate: Baseball in 'The Old Man and the Sea

Journal article by James Plath; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 16, 1996

Subjects:

Baseball in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hemingway, Ernest--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Old Man and the Sea (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the plate: baseball in The Old Man and the Sea. by James Plath...BASEBALL REFERENCES IN The Old Man and the Sea, obvious and frequent as allusions...beginning and ending of The Old Man and the Sea which "frame" the narrative...
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Cultural Imperialism, Afro-Cuban Religion, and Santiago's Failure in Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea

Journal article by Philip Melling; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 26, 2006

Subjects:

Authors--Works, Hemingway, Ernest--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, The Old Man and the Sea (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Santiagos Failure in Hemingways the Old Man and the Sea. by Philip Melling In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway was profoundly affected...battle with the sharks in The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago reaches under the...
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Of Rocks and Marlin: The Existentialist Agon in Camus's the Myth of Sisyphus and Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea

Journal article by Dwight Eddins; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 21, 2001

Subjects:

Authors, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors, French--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Camus, Albert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Existentialism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., The Myth of Sisyphus (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Old Man and the Sea (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...sisyphus and hemingways the old man and the sea by Dwight Eddins...analysis bears directly on The Old Man and the Sea, where--in essence--Santiago...A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea (170). Stephen Croft, on the...
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Inside the Current: A Taoist Reading of 'The Old Man and the Sea.'

Journal article by Eric Waggoner; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 17, 1998

Subjects:

Hemingway, Ernest--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Taoism--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...current: a Taoist reading of The Old Man and the Sea. by Eric Waggoner...symbolysm sic. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a...story of the old man of the sea, the old man who is the sea. In his centeredness...
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The Young Man and the Sea

Journal article by James Blasingame; Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 47, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Young Man and the Sea (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...be half of the battle. Philbricks story is not only a parallel but also a complement to Hemingways original, The Old Man and the Sea. Similarities abound but so do even more differences. While Santiago was ancient and dealing with old age through...

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Salman Rushdie and the Sea of Stories: The World-Famous Fabulist Speculates about the Innate Theatricality of His Richly Imaginative Novels

Magazine article by Davia Nelson, Shazia Ahmad; American Theatre, Vol. 20, March 2003

Subjects:

Haroun (Book)--Authorship, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Theater), Midnight's Children (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Novelists--Interviews, Royal Shakespeare Company, Rushdie, Salman--Authorship

Collections: Entire Library

...this." Youre no stranger to the stage. Well, I wanted to be...played that important character, Old Man. And as part of playing Old Man, I took it upon myself to build...somebodys hand. So when I did, the nose went glump. I then had to...
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The Needle in the Sea: Simon Worrall Sets Sail for a Southern Island to Meet a Man Fighting the Looters of China's Underwater Treasure

Magazine article by Simon Worrall; New Statesman, Vol. 137, April 14, 2008

Subjects:

Antiquities--Protection and preservation, Archaeologists--Practice, Islands--Environmental aspects, Looting--Prevention, Zhang Wei--Practice

Collections: Entire Library

...Needle in the Sea: Simon Worrall...Island to Meet a Man Fighting the Looters of Chinas...got around on old-fashioned Phoenix...bare-chested man with skin the colour of teak...choppy, grey sea appears. Billboards...and girls in old-fashioned bathing...
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The Old Man and the Daiquiri: A Pilgrimage through Hemingway's Havana

Magazine article by Wayne Curtis; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 296, October 2005

Subjects:

Cocktails--Varieties, Havana, Cuba, Hemingway, Ernest--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Hemingway, Ernest--Collections and collecting

Collections: Entire Library

...making obeisance where the great man lived, worked, and, mostly, drank. The digital photograph the guard returned...beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from...flamingo-colored pile in the heart of the old city. Hemingways early stays in...
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The Old Man in the Mountain

Magazine article; Insight on the News, April 13, 2004

Subjects:

Bush, George W.--Foreign policy, Bush, George W.--Military policy, Europe--Religious aspects, Islam and politics--Europe, Islam and politics--History, Islam and politics--United States, Islam--Europe, Islam--History, Islam--United States, Terrorism--History, Terrorism--Religious aspects, War on Terrorism, 2001---Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Laden. Nor were the Crusader accounts mythological. The Old Man in the Mountain was a real person, Hasan-i Sabbah, and his mountain...perched on a barren peak at the south end of the Caspian Sea. Its ruins still may be seen today. Alamut was, like al-Qaeda...
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Yuri's Search for the Old Man : A Legend of Ancient Korea

Magazine article by Ra Jong-Yil; World and I, Vol. 18, June 2003

Subjects:

Father-son relations--Myths and legends, Fathers and sons--Myths and legends, Korea--Myths and legends

Collections: Entire Library

Yuris Search for the Old Man : A Legend of Ancient...One was about a sea of immeasurable...depleted. The young man seemed to be growing old without first maturing...was tortured by the nightmares of the treacherous sea and his own wanderings...

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OLD MAN OF THE SEA COUSTEAU IS DEAD; Pioneer Showed Us Secrets of the Deep

Newspaper article by Mark Ellis; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 26, 1997

Subjects:

Cousteau, Jacques-Yves

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

OLD MAN OF THE SEA COUSTEAU IS DEAD; Pioneer Showed...aqualung and developed a one- man jet-powered submarine. But it was The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau...was 71 if he was getting too old to dive, he replied: "Age doesnt...
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Your Life - Travel: OLD MAN AND THE SEA; THE ISLE OF MAN OFFERS SOME SURPRISES TO NEIL COTTER Forget the Manx Cats, This Island Has More Glamour Than Monaco

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 16, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Your Life - Travel: OLD MAN AND THE SEA; THE ISLE OF MAN OFFERS SOME SURPRISES TO NEIL COTTER Forget the...that took me completely by surprise. The isle of Man combines the best elements of small town England, the rugged...
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Snatched from the Sea; BHarbour: The Gismonde before a New Paint Job Wreck Ahoy! the Floating Bonfire Is a Shipping Hazard Abandon Ship: The Rapid Spread of the Flames Meant There Was No Option but to Man the Lifeboat

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 25, 2007

Subjects:

Fishing boats, Fishing vessels

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...were Pat Coady - the 32-year-old skipper, Tom Hennessy - a married dadof two, his uncle - Kerry man Pat Hennessy, in his 50s, family...warship is standing guard by the wreck At the time of the incident...vowed they wouldnever go to sea again. Skipper Ger Bohan, 39...
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Bored by an Arty Old Man

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 25, 2005

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...reverie when it came to watchability. My Old Man has much more of a narrative structure, even if the two plays are on a par in their ability to induce tedium. An old sea dog called Sam (Frank Kelly) invites himself...
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SO WHO DID WIN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN? This Week It Was Claimed That the Navy, Not the RAF, Saved Us from the Nazis. Wrong, Says This Historian. Our Real Saviour Was One Bloody-Minded Old Man

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 26, 2006

Subjects:

Historians--Military aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...battleships - Scharnhorst and Gneisenau - two old battleships, two heavy and two light cruisers...destroyers, 28 operational U-boats and about the same number of torpedo boats. Against these...Rosyth if a German invasion armada put to sea. It would have been extraordinarily difficult...

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Man, Isle Of

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...588 sq km), off Great Britain, in the Irish Sea. The coast is rocky with precipitous cliffs; the Calf of Man is a detached rocky islet off the southwest...and other stone monuments, a round tower, an old fort, and castles. Occupied by Vikings in...
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Proteus , in Greek Mythology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Greek mythology , in Greek mythology, prophetic old man of the sea who tended the seals of Poseidon. He could change himself into any...were nevertheless seized and held, he would foretell the future. The word protean is derived from his name...
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Nereus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...nereids (see nymph ). A kindly, wise old man of the sea, Nereus could change into many shapes and had the power of prophecy. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
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Tracy, Spencer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Last Hurrah (1958), and as the only character in The Old Man and the Sea (1958). Tracy and Katharine Hepburn , together in nine films, including Woman of the Year (1942) and Desk Set (1957), provided the screen...
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Oceanus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Phi

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