《老人与海》是海明威于1951年在巴哈马写的一篇中篇小说，于1952年出版。它是海明威在世时出版的最后一部主要的虚构作品。作为他著名的作品之一，它围绕一位古巴老渔夫，与一条巨大的马林鱼在离岸很远的湾流中搏斗。虽然对它有不同的文学评价，但它在20世纪小说和海明威的作品中是值得注目的，奠定了他在世界文学中的突出地位，这篇小说获得了1953年美国普利策奖和1954年诺贝尔文学奖。
　　“鲸歌英文原版”系列图书第一辑，精选国内读者耳熟能详十本名著：《呼啸山庄》《月亮和六便士》《简·爱》《老人与海》《1984》《美丽新世界》《人性的弱点》《假如给我三天光明》《动物庄园》《飘》，以国外的出版社版本为参照，原版复制，精心编排，力求原汁原味还原外版图书的风貌。这十本书文笔优美，阅读难度不高，非常适合有一定外语阅读能力的读者首次入门接触外国小说。

　　
　　 20世纪著名的小说家之一海明威的代表性著作，诺贝尔文学家、普利策奖获奖作品，历史上百部经典作品之一。在世界文学中占据突出地位。
　　 世界文学史上的经典之作。
　　 原汁原味，原版引进。
　　 良心国货，性jia比高。

      欧内斯特 米勒 海明威，美国记者和作家，被认为是20世纪著名的小说家。海明威一生中的感情错综复杂，先后结过四次婚，是美国“迷失的一代”作家中的代表人物，作品中对人生、世界、社会都表现出了迷茫和彷徨。他一向以文坛硬汉著称，是美利坚民族的精神丰碑。

      This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos, he thought. But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfecdy even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel. What is a bone spur? he asked himself. Un espuela de nueso. We do not have them. Can it be as painful as the spur of a fighting cock in one’s heel? I do not think I could endure that or the loss of the eye and of both eyes and continue to fight as the fighting cocks do. Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.
‘Unless sharks come,’he said aloud.‘If sharks come, God pity him and me.’
      Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one? he thought. I am sure he would and more since he is young and strong. Also his father was a fisherman. But would the bone spur hurt him too much?
‘I do not know,’he said aloud.‘I never had a bone spur.’
      As the sun set he remembered,to give himself more confidence, the time in the tavern at Casablanca when he had played the hand game with the great negro from Cienfuegos who was the strongest man on the docks. They had gone one day and one night with their elbows on a chalk line on the table and their forearms straight up and their hands gripped tight. Each one was trying to force the other’s hand down onto the table. There was much betting and people went in and out of the room under the kerosene lights and he had looked at the arm and hand of the negro and at the negro’s face.They changed the referees every four hours after the first eight so that the referees could sleep. Blood came out from under the fingernails of both his and the negro’s hands and they looked each other in the eye and at their hands and forearms and the bettors went in and out of the room and sat on high chairs against the wall and watched. The walls were painted bright blue and were of wood and the lamps threw their shadows against them. The negro’s shadow was huge and it moved on the wall as the breeze moved the lamps.
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