The Old Man and the Sea

The book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature

"It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought."

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 endeavor 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.

"The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently." - Sunday Times

"The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish." - Guardian