《老人与海》是海明威在 1951 年创作的一部中篇小说，也是海明威最著名的作品之一。这篇小说相继获得了 1953 年美国普利策奖和1954 年诺贝尔文学奖。在海明威的整个创作中，《老人与海》占有举世公认的重要地位。它是海明威一生的总结性作品。本书中的老渔夫圣地亚哥的身上映现出晚年海明威的精神世界，是作者笔下"硬汉"形象的集中体现。

本书除了《老人与海》，还精选了海明威的《一天的等待》《好狮子》《雨中的猫》《白象似的群山》《美国太太的金丝雀》《在异乡》等代表性作品。为了便于青少年更好地理解，我们在每篇作品前添加了导读，或介绍作品的发表背景，或介绍作品的主要内容，或分析作品主要表达的思想，这使文章的可读性大大加强。希望本书能够丰富青少年的内心，成为青少年朋友学习的好伙伴。

(The Old Man and The Sea is a novel created by Hemingway in 1951, and is also one of Hemingway's most famous works. This novel successively won the 1953 American Pulitzer Prize and the 1954 Nobel Prize in literature. In Hemingway's entire creation, The Old Man and The Sea has universally acknowledged important status. It is Hemingway's summary work in his life. The spirit world of the old fisherman Santiago reflecting Hemingway's spiritual world, is the concentrated reflection of the author's "tough guy" image.

In addition to The Old Man and The Sea, this book also selects Hemingway's A Day's Wait, Good Lion, Cat In the Rain, Hills Like White Elephants, A Canary For One and Far Away From Home, etc. In order to make teenagers read more convenient, and have more profound understanding, we add an introduction before each article to either introduce publishing background of works, or introduce the main content of the work, or analyze ideas the works try to express, which improves the readability of the article. We hope this book can enrich young people's inner heart, and become good friends when young people learn out-of-class knowledge. )