The Old Man and the Sea

About “The Old Man and the Sea”

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, the fable tells of an old man, a young boy, and a giant fish. The story of heroic endeavor won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature and stands as a vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements. A 1952 short novel by Ernest Hemingway, written between December 1950 and February 1951.