The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea，中文译名为《老人与海》，讲述的了一个渔夫的故事。古巴老渔夫圣地亚哥在连续八十四天没捕到鱼的情况下，独自钓上了一条大马林鱼，但这鱼实在大，把他的小船在海上拖了三天才筋疲力尽，被他杀死了绑在小船的一边。在归程中，他再遭到一条鲨鱼的袭击，最后回港时只剩鱼头鱼尾和一条脊骨。而在老圣地亚哥出海的日子里，他的忘年好友一直在海边忠诚地等待，满怀信心地迎接着他的归来。

Ernest Hemingway ranks as the most famous of twentieth-century American writers; like Mark Twain, Hemingway is one of those rare authors most people know about, whether they have read him or not. The difference is that Twain, with his white suit, ubiquitous cigar, and easy wit, survives in the public imagination as a basically, lovable figure, while the deeply imprinted image of Hemingway as rugged and macho has been much less universally admired, for all his fame. Hemingway has been regarded less as a writer dedicated to his craft than as a man of action who happened to be afflicted with genius. When he won the Nobel Prize in 1954, Time magazine reported the news under Heroes rather than Books and went on to describe the author as "a globe-trotting expert on bullfights, booze, women, wars, big game hunting, deep sea fishing, and courage." Hemingway did in fact address all those subjects in his books, and he acquired his expertise through well-reported acts of participation as well as of observation; by going to all the wars of his time, hunting and fishing for great beasts, marrying four times, occasionally getting into fistfights, drinking too much, and becoming, in the end, a worldwide celebrity recognizable for his signature beard and challenging physical pursuits.