Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is a classic novel about an aging Cuban fisherman's epic battle with a giant marlin. It is a story of courage, determination, and the human spirit's ability to triumph over adversity.
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.