... them wrong. Upon his return to Cuba, he plotted out a multi-part sea novel. Although drafts portions of this opus would be published after Hemingway's death as Island in the Stream, in 1951, he abandoned this grand vision and focused on one section of the project. The result was The Old Man and the Sea(1952). The text of Hemingway's fourth novel appeared in a November, 1951 special issue of Life Magazine. It was both ... a popular sensation, selling over five million copies in a matter of days, and a major literary achievement for which he would receive the Nobel Prize in 1954. Hemingwa...

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