The Old Man And The Sea Av Ernest Hemingway

<p><b>The book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature</b><br><br><i>''It''s silly not to hope. It''s a sin he thought''</i><br><br>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 endeavour 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.<br><br><b>''The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently'' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>''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'' <i>Guardian</i></b></p>