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- Phil Treagus-EvansInterview
- Shane Joseph: The Page Is SacredInterview
1) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – for its simplicity and metaphor
- Matt ForbeckInterview
Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Forever War by Joe Haldeman Dune by Frank Herbert Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson Watchmen…
- Guillem BalagueInterview
It would be The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I read it in one night, and it just made me realise that a good book is one you cannot put down. It made me want to write. I always felt like I had a book in me, but that book gave me the impetus to write. I look back at that book and ask myself how he did he do…
- Adam MartinakisInterview
I think the book I have recommended most to them is The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
- Richard BettsInterview
Hard to pick one, I think I read both Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway a dozen times each. I loved the ocean, and somehow they both offered peace.
- Emma BennettInterview
- A Brief History of Ernest HemingwayArticle
Some of Ernest Hemingway’s other famous novels include For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), which tells the story of an American man named Robert Jordan who is fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman who goes on a three-day journey to catch a…
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