The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

First published 1952 · 131 pages

About this book

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.

  • American Sea stories
  • Male friendship
  • Fishers
  • Fiction
  • Ameriška književnost
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  • Ancianos
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