The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway First there was the mystery

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond

an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry

each momentous occasion came with books to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past

But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic

from starting a business to saving a pension

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway First there was the mysterySet in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. In a perfectly crafted story, which won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.