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The Old Man and the Ocean is among Hemingway’s many enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it's the tale of a classic Cuban fisherman, down on his-luck, and his supreme ordeal—a constant, agonizing struggle with a huge marlin far-out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the facial skin of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Created in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a sizable part in his winning the 1954 Nobel-Prize for Literature.