Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 20, 2005

The Old Man and the Sea, composed in 1951 in Cuba and published in 1952, was the last major work of fiction to be written by Ernest Hemingway and published in his lifetime. Likely his most famous work, it centers upon an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Though the novella has been the subject of disparate criticism, it is noteworthy in twentieth century fiction and in Hemingway's canon, reaffirming his worldwide literary prominence and significant in his selection for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

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