Der alte Mann und das Meer by Ernest Hemingway
Published 1959 · 43,725 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is Der alte Mann und das Meer to read?
Der alte Mann und das Meer scores 16 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
Where the story of Der alte Mann und das Meer takes place
- Cuban coast, early 1950s (1950 to 1952), the main setting