1. "The Old Man and the Sea". Article The old fisherman Santiago has not caught any fish for eighty-four days. But he refused to admit defeat, and finally caught a very huge marlin on the 85th day. The big fish kept dragging the boat into the sea. After a hard fight, he finally killed the big fish, but attracted other sharks. After eating the carcass of a big fish, he could only drag a pair of fish bones back to the shore.

2. "A Farewell to Arms" (also translated as "Battlefield Dreams") is Hemingway's masterpiece. Taking the anti-imperialist war as the theme, he revealed the historical reasons for the emergence of the "lost generation" and accused the war of destroying people's ideals and happiness, harming people's souls, and causing millions of innocent lives to be ruined. This work reveals the basic characteristics of Hemingway's prose style and "modern narrative art". The plot of the work is simple and the artistic conception is pure, the language is unpretentious, the sentences are short and concise, and the description of the environment achieves a blend of scenes.

3. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" This is an important work that connects the past and the future. It tells the touching story of Robert Jordan, a volunteer of the International Brigade, who sacrificed his life for cooperating with a guerrilla team in a bridge bombing operation. This work is one of the most thoughtful works in Hemingway's middle period. Get rid of the emotions of loneliness, confusion and sadness, integrate the individual into society, and show the lofty spirit of dedicating oneself to a just cause.

4. "The Sun Also Rises" is Hemingway's famous work published in the 1940s. It describes the confusion, hesitation and disillusionment of a group of young people living in Europe after the war. The novel is called a masterpiece of the lost generation.

5. "Death in the Afternoon" was published in 1932. It respects the famous saying of American architect Rodwig "Less, more", which makes the work more refined and shortened. The distance between the reader and the reader puts forward the "iceberg principle", which only expresses one-eighth of things, making the work substantial, implicit and thought-provoking.