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During World War I, the American young man Frederick Henry came to the Italian front as a volunteer and served as a lieutenant in a field ambulance team, where he met the British nurse Catherine. During a mission, Henry was injured and was sent to Milan Hospital for recuperation, where Catherine also happened to be transferred to work. After an unexpected reunion and Catherine's careful care of Henry, the two fell in love. After recovering from his injury, Henry, who returned to the front line, became more aware of the cruelty of war. In order to escape the punishment of the so-called "AWOL" officers, he resolutely left the army and joined Catherine, and the two fled to Switzerland together. Unfortunately, after a short period of happiness, Catherine died in childbirth, and the baby also died of suffocation, leaving Henry alone in the world.

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, all that was left of his hard-earned big fish was the wreckage.

Among all his works, the short stories that made Hemingway the earliest and most enduring are his short stories that created a generation of writing style. The second volume contains short stories published in books and periodicals after the "first series of 49" and unpublished novels, a total of 21 stories. There are another five articles in the appendix that were not included in the original complete collection and were only discovered in the mid-1980s.

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.

"Spring Tide" tells the story of the young American writer Scripps O'Neill's wife and daughter who ran away one after another, and a series of strange things happened in the northern mountain town of Michigan, which formed the interesting core plot of Hemingway's early novella "Spring Tide". "The Old Man and the Sea" tells the story of an old fisherman's struggle with a big fish. It has a profound theme and won Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. It has long been widely popular in our country.

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.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), one of the most outstanding writers in the United States, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. "A Farewell to Arms" is one of his major works. In the late stages of World War I, American young man Frederick Henry volunteered to drive an ambulance for the Red Cross and rescue the wounded on the northern Italian front. During a mission, Henry was hit by a cannonball and injured. While recovering from his injuries in Milan Hospital, Henry received careful care from British nurse Catherine, and the two fell in love. After recovering from his injuries, Henry returned to the front line. When he retreated with the Italian troops, he witnessed the cruel scenes of the war. He resolutely left the troops, joined Catherine and fled to Switzerland. As a result, Catherine died in childbirth. Based on his own experience in the war, Hemingway sang a sad and moving elegy with war and love as the main lines. It has been adapted to the screen many times and can be called a classic of modern literature.

Selected masterpieces of Hemingway's "Outdoors" short and medium stories × newly translated by travel literature author Liu Zichao! Forests, seas, snow-capped mountains, grasslands, and rivers are all good places we want to go. The book includes ten masterpieces of Hemingway's short stories and short stories about "outdoors" and "travel", including "The Big Two-Hearted River", "Cross-Country Skiing", "Alpine Pastoral", "An African Story", and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". The characters in the story traveled all over the Americas, Europe, and Africa; they started from the Big Two Heart River, crossed the Mississippi River, came to the Alps, and went to Tanzania... They hiked, fished, skied, and hunted, visiting some old places and some new places; they also chatted around the fire on stormy days, beside the bonfire raised in the wild, and at the tavern where they rested on the way, meeting unexpected people and hearing strange things. Through changes in time and space, they continue to expand their life radius, break away from the established rules of survival, and re-establish their connection with the world.

A group of young people go to Spain on vacation to participate in the Running of the Bulls festival. They hang out in bars and cafes, partying wantonly but unable to feel happiness, longing for love but unable to love, struggling in frustration, emptiness and confusion, looking for a spiritual outlet.

This book collects twenty of the author's best short stories and short stories, including immortal chapters such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Soldier's Home" and "An African Story". These works allow readers to fully appreciate the great charm of the author's short stories and short stories, which are exciting and long-lasting to read. They have created the image of a "tough guy", and many works reflect "elegance under pressure." "People can be eliminated, but they cannot be defeated." This brave and fearless spirit runs through many works. Simple and clear dialogues, intricate plots, and intriguing stories attract readers into the author's unique literary world.

This book collects sixteen 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 has been highly demonstrated in his short stories.

A Cuban old man, Santiago, was ridiculed for not catching any fish for 84 consecutive days at sea. On the 85th day at sea, he finally caught a large marlin unexpectedly. The old man finally killed it after dealing with it for two days. But on the way back, the bloody trails left by the big fish on the sea attracted countless sharks. The old man fought desperately with the shark, and when he finally returned to port, only a skeleton of the marlin was left.

Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not" (1937) is the author's fourth novel published after "Spring Torrents" (1926), "The Sun Also Rises" (1926) and "A Farewell to Arms" (1929). It is his first novel with a laborer as the protagonist.

The American young man Barnes suffered a spinal injury in World War I and lost his sexual ability. After the war, while working as a reporter in Paris, he fell in love with the British Mrs. Ashley. She pursued pleasure blindly, while he could only drink to drown his sorrows. The two went to Pamplona, ​​Spain, with a group of male and female friends to participate in the bullfighting festival in pursuit of spiritual stimulation. The lady rejected the pursuit of the Jewish young man Cohen, but fell in love with the 19-year-old bullfighter Romero...

This book selects Hemingway's most representative short and medium-length works, including the best short and medium-sized novels such as "The Old Man and the Sea", "Snows on Mount Kilimanjaro", "Mountains Like White Elephants", "In Northern Michigan", "A Day's Wait" and other classics. "The Old Man and the Sea" is the most important and influential work of Ernest Hemingway. It is a handed down work 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.