`It``s silly not to hope. It``s a sin he thought``

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.

``The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently`` Sunday Times

``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`` Guardian