The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Though it has been the subject of disparate criticism, it is noteworthy in twentieth century fiction and in Hemingway's canon, reaffirming his worldwide literary prominence and significant in his selection for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

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Novella - Ernest Hemingway - Cuba - 1951 - 1952 - Fiction - Fisherman - Marlin - Gulf Stream - Criticism - Twentieth century - Nobel Prize in Literature - 1954

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