Winner · Pulitzer Prizes 1953
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
1952 short novel by Ernest Hemingway, written between December 1950 and February 1951
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- American English
- Genre
- novella
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