老人与海

by Ernest Hemingway, 欧内斯特·海明威, 吴劳 (Translator)

《老人与海》为诺奖得主海明威负盛名的作品。小说塑造了文学史上典型的硬汉形象，宣扬了不畏艰难的斗争精神，将海明威简约明晰的文风发挥，是海明威具代表性的作品之一，奠定了他在20世纪英美文坛不可动摇的地位。小说于1952年面世，1953年即获普利策奖，并在1954年让海明威将诺贝尔文学奖收入囊中。自出版以来，小说获得各界赞誉无数，被威廉·福克纳誉为“同时代好的小说”，曾雄踞畅销书排行榜首位达六个月之久，当之无愧地成为影响历史的百部经典之一以及美国历史上里程碑式的32本书之一。此外，本书还精选了海明威的8篇中短篇小说，包括《印第安人营地》、《乞力马扎罗的雪》等。

236 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2018

About the author

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.