
The Old Man And The Sea | Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea is a 1952 novella by Ernest Hemingway that tells the story of an aging Cuban fisherman named Santiago and his epic battle to catch a giant marlin. It was the last major work of fiction published during Hemingway's lifetime and is widely considered one of his finest works. The book earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited as a major factor in his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.