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This book contains all of Hemingway's short stories. The first volume contains the writer's first complete collection of short stories published in 1938, the "First Collection of 49", including famous works such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"; there are another 6 stories that are not included in the "First Collection of 49", but the works that obviously belong to the same period are placed in the "Appendix".

After World War I, Barnes, an American young man living in Paris, worked as a reporter for a newspaper and fell in love with Mrs. Ashley from England. Due to being injured in the war and losing his sexual ability, Barnes has never been able to truly combine with Mrs. Ashley. He often drowns his sorrows in alcohol and tries to forget the pain under anesthesia, but to no avail. The two went to Spain with a group of friends to participate in the bullfighting festival. Mrs. Ashley, who is romantic and pleasure-seeking by nature, fell in love with Romero, a much younger bullfighter. Although Mrs. Ashley ended her relationship with Romero and returned to Barnes, they both knew in their hearts that they could never truly be together.

The old fisherman Santiago went to sea for eighty-four days without catching anything. The little boy Manolin who followed him also had to go to another fishing boat, but he did not despair. On the eighty-fifth day, Santiago finally caught a big fish, "it looked like more than fifteen hundred pounds." After being dragged by the big fish and sailing for two days and two nights, and after a difficult struggle, he finally killed the big fish and started to return. However, the blood shed by the big fish attracted many sharks one after another. With no food and no helpers, Santiago tenaciously killed one shark after another. But when he finally returned to the harbor, only the remains of the hard-won big fish were left.

Hemingway had complicated emotions in his life and was married four times. He was a representative figure among the "lost generation" writers in the United States. His works showed confusion and hesitation about life, the world, and society. He has always been known as a tough guy in the literary world, and he is a spiritual monument to the American nation. The "Hemingway Selections Collection Set" is a set of literary masterpieces published in commemoration of Hemingway's birthday. The set includes four books: "The Old Man and the Sea", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "A Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises".

"The Old Man and the Sea" is one of the masterpieces of the American writer Hemingway. It was published in 1952 and was the last novel published by the author during his lifetime. In Hemingway's own words, this is "the best work he can write in his life. Other excellent and mature works are greatly inferior to it." Hemingway created many "tough guy" images in his works, among which Santiago in "The Old Man and the Sea" is a representative one. The old man Santiago fought with the big fish at sea, adhering to his life motto "A person can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated." It was a duel between the strong and the strong, and only in this duel can the "tough guy" spirit become more dazzling. In the end, the old man dragged the fish bones back home. He failed, but he became an out-and-out hero.

The book "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" contains eleven of Hemingway's short stories. The leopard on the snowy mountain, the fisherman by the river, the old man in the cafe... Eleven seemingly indifferent stories contain untold vicissitudes of life. Hemingway's unique "iceberg" writing style is best presented in his short stories. There are people who inspire me to take life seriously. But if I did that, I might cause a lot of people to strangle themselves.

"The Old Man and the Sea: Selected Novels by Hemingway" selects Hemingway's representative short and medium-length works, including excellent short and medium-sized novels such as "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Hills Like White Elephants", "The Boxer", "Indian Camp" and other classics. "The Old Man and the Sea" is an influential work by Ernest Hemingway. It is a masterpiece of tough guy literature. It creates an upright and unyielding spiritual image with a sharp and concise style. These works of Hemingway have influenced and encouraged generations of readers for decades.