I would like to nominate Ernest Hemingway's best book, made into a superb movie starring
Spencer Tracy. The movie got one Oscar win, and two additional nominations. The book? It got a Pulitzer Prize.
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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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This is a short book (132 pages in hardcover), it's
FREE in
Canada and Life+50 countries, and is both powerful and approachable. Really, if you read no other Hemingway, read this one.
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I finally read this a couple of years ago when Hemingway became Public Domain in Canada. And I'd like to
highly recommend it. Powerful, timeless, and a quite approachable read.