older men

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal--a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature.

Thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell reaches the end of innocence in the summer of 1958 after he discovers a cache of old love letters in the burned-out ruins behind his parents' drive-in theater, and embarks on an investigation that leads to the discovery of old secrets, passion, racism, and murder.

Presents photographs and quotations from men over sixty, including farmers, fathers, husbands, and famous men such as B. B. King, Bill Cosby, and Ted Turner.

Two men---Seth Walker, a teenager trying to understand the genetic nature of his mother's early onset Alzheimer's, and Abel Haggard, an elderly hunchback who spends his days alone on the family farm thinking about the past--are linked by their mothers' stories of a fantasy world in which the lack of memory is a blessing.

Linus Steinman, a 9-year-old mute refugee from Nazi Germany, and his number-spewing parrot appear to be at the center of a mystery in the 1944 English countryside.

An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught.

An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught.

Through parental love Goriot is willingly reduced to poverty so that he may satisfy the demands of his well-married but debt-ridden daughters.

Presents Ernest Hemingway's classic novel "The Old Man and the Sea" about an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head with a magnificent marlin.