The old man and the sea
By: Ernest Hemingway
Series: The Scribner library of contemporary classics; Scribner library of contemporary classics
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Copyright date: 1952
Subjects: Older men; Fiction; Fishers; Friendship; Allegories; Sea stories
Description: Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who encounters a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream and the battle for his catch becomes one of survival against a band of marauding sharks.