The Age of Innocence / Edith Wharton

Title: The Age of Innocence 

Author: Edith Wharton

Subjects: Fiction

The Age of Innocence makes Wharton the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the year 1921. The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded-Age" New York City. It is fundamentally a story which struggles to reconcile the old with the new. 

The Old Man and the Sea / Ernest Hemingway

Title: The Old Man and the Sea 

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Noble Prize; Pulitzer Prize

It is most famous works of Hemingway, tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.