If your library is not ready for a fine first edition, another beautiful way to enjoy “The Old Man and the Sea” is Scribner’s hardcover classic edition, still in print, with the original ...

But this old man was once a young buck who spent his 30’s at 907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Fla., where, it’s said, his love of deep-sea diving spawned much of his greatest work.

Unlike Hemingway's Santiago, the old man of The Old Man and the Sea, he does not dream of lions or even a marlin attacked by sharks. A sheepshead won't give a man a nightmare.

The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway Following the publication of “The Old Man and the Sea,” Hemingway received the The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.