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The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Summary

An aging Cuban fisherman struggles alone at sea with a giant marlin for three days, only to have it devoured by sharks on the way back to shore. The novella won the Pulitzer Prize and is widely cited as a factor in Hemingway's Nobel Prize.

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Ernest Hemingway

American novelist and Nobel laureate (1899–1961) known for his economical prose style and iceberg theory of writing. A war correspondent and big-game hunter, his adventurous life was as legendary as his fiction.

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Published
1952
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Ernest Hemingway