1. The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Ondřej Hornig © 2009

2. Short biography of author
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
American novelist, short-story writer and journalist
He had 5 siblings
He joined the Red Cross Ambulance Crops during the WWI., he also saw a war
in Italia
He spent his last years on Cuba
Holder of Pulitzer and Nobel
prizes

3. Short biography of author
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
Fiesta
A Farewell to Arms
To Have and Have not
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea

4. The Old Man and the Sea
That novel has great success, both commercial and critical.
It was published in 1952.
It earned Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize in The next year he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature for lifetime literary achievement.
It was his last writing.

5. The Old Man and the Sea
The novel is about an old fisherman sailing day to day in waters around Cuba. One day he catch a big fish, much more bigger than his boat. He fighting to kill it for 3 days and nights non-stop, he is attacked by sharks and also he is fighting with his own body which would like to collapse. After this heartless fight he is found on the beach with a huge skeleton of a biggest fish inhabitants ever seen. That is what brings him a glory and a praise.
Praise - uznání

6. The Old Man and the Sea

7. but cannot be defeated!“
The Old Man and the Sea
„A man can be destroyed,
but cannot be defeated!“
Ernest Hemingway
Praise - uznání

8. The Old Man and the Sea It has been made into a film more than once.
1958: The old man and the sea; Directed by Henry King, John Sturges, Henry King, Fred Zinnemann
1990: The old man and the sea; Directed by Jud Taylor

9. Ernest Hemingway
„Best of all he loved the fall The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods Leaves floating on the trout streams And above the hills The high blue windless skies Now he will be a part of them forever.“
Ernest Hemingway - Idaho

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The Old Man and the Sea
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11. The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Ondřej Hornig © 2009