The Old Man and the Sea



The Old Man and the Sea is a 1952 novella by Ernest Hemingway, which he wrote while visiting Cuba. The last of his fiction to be published in his lifetime, the story centers on an aging cuban fisherman who struggles with a marlin in the gulf.

The book was referenced in an episode of Monsterpiece Theatre on Sesame Street, in a segment called The Old Man and the C, with Grover taking on the role of the old man.