Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and The Sea'!

If anyone were to ask me which is the best novella in world literature, I would, without any hesitation, say 'Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.' What a magnificent work of fiction! 

It's a symbolic novella about human existence and survival. Like the old man Santiago in the novel, we all dream of catching a 'big fish' in our brief existence. In the end, he gets nothing except the skeleton of the big marlin. Only the skeleton remains

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