The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Published for the first time: 9/1/1952
96 pages, Hardcover
Genres: Novels, Adventure, American, School, Literature, Fiction, Classics
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThis short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.
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