11 Facts About Hemingway’s 'The Old Man And The Sea'

The Old Man and the Sea was the last major work Ernest Hemingway published in his lifetime. The simple story is about an old man who catches a giant fish in the waters off Cuba, only to have it devoured by sharks. Defeated, he returns home with the fish’s skeleton attached to the boat.

Many consider this spare novel to be Hemingway’s best work.

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