The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway). The Old Man and the Sea, the classic novella by Ernest Hemingway, written with admirable simplicity and strength, deals with man's struggle for survival.

The old fisherman Santiago will face the largest marlin he has ever seen in his life and will undergo the ultimate trial, engaging in a desperate battle all alone in the waters off Cuba.

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated,” muses Santiago, even when it seems that everything is over. A precious lesson in life about patience and perseverance, about the greatness of struggle, about the belief that man should never give up the fight.