Day 14/30: Speed Read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – 128 Pages in 53 Minutes
This is day #14 of the One Book, One Day challenge. We’re going to speed read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway at 500 words per minute (WPM) using AccelaReader.com.
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About the Book:
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
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Book Stats:
Pages: 128
How Long To Read: 53 minutes (at 500 WPM)
Published: 1952
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Book 14 finished.