Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist form; James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just completed Gertrude Stein held court at 27 Rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of and T.S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London. It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.

·精选海明威最经典的作品 ·代表海明威最高艺术成就 ·权威译本，完美呈现 《乞力马扎罗山的雪》一书收录十一篇海明威最负盛名的短篇小说，全面展示了海明威作为20世纪国际文坛领军人物的艺术风范，尤其是“一个干净明亮的地方”被誉为“最好的故事之一”。 《乞力马扎罗的雪》译者汤伟，笔名小二，资深文学译者，其推荐并翻译的雷蒙德•卡佛作品《当我们谈论爱情时，我们在谈论什么》掀起了一股阅读卡佛的风潮。

《老人与海》是海明威的代表作品。 古巴老渔夫圣地亚哥在连续八十四天没捕到鱼的情况下，终于独自钓上了一条大马林鱼，但这鱼实在太大，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，在归程中一再遭到鲨鱼的袭击，最后回港时只剩下鱼头鱼尾和一条脊骨。 这虽然是一个故事简单、篇幅不大的作品，但含义丰富，很多教师把它作为英雄主义教育的教材，推荐给广大学生，使之成为经久不衰的畅销书。