The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
3.9238 ratings on Open Library131 pagesFirst published 1952Standalone
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.
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