GK
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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Question
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Graham Green
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Earnest Hemingway
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Albert Camus
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Saul Bellow
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Old Man and the Sea, short heroic novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952 and awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was his last major work of fiction. The story centres on an aging fisherman who engages in an epic battle to catch a giant marlin.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman Santiago and his life’s greatest catch of fish. Santiago is an aged Cuban fisherman. For eighty-four days, he has set out to sea but every time returned empty-handed. So his fisherman society treats him unlucky.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Old Man and the Sea is considered a classic now, but it may not have been when it was originally published. Chances are, you have read some novels that were published in the last 5–10 years.