The Old Man and the Sea

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'"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."'

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.