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Ernest Hemingway THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA 1952
- excerpt from the book ‘Picturing Hemingway - A Writer in His Time’ by Frederick Voss
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Ernest Hemingway THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA 1952
- excerpt from the book ‘Picturing Hemingway - A Writer in His Time’ by Frederick Voss
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Hemingway’s confidence in his own work was sometimes misplaced, but not in the case of The Old Man and the Sea. Paying its author the handsome price of $40,000, Life magazine published the novella in toto in a single issue, and within forty-eight hours, all 5.3 million copies were snapped up. The Life publication did not lessen demand for the work in hardcover, and for six months it remained on the best-sellers list. Perhaps most noteworthy was the rapid acceptance of The Old Man and the Sea into the canon of American Classics.