The old man and the sea

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Not only the finest long short story that Hemingway has ever written, but one of the finest written by yone anywhere'

THE LISTENER

'As an example of simple "declarative" prose it is unsurpassed in Hemingway's oeuvre. Every word tells and there is not a word too many' ANTHONY BURGESS NINETY-NINE NOVELS-THE BEST IN ENGLISH SINCE 1939

The best story Hemingway has ever written... no page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently'

SUNDAY TIMES

'A quite wonderful example of narrative art. The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish'

THE GUARDIAN