老人与海The Old Man and the Se.pptVIP

欧内斯特·米勒尔·海明威  Contents 1、Brief introduction of the author a. Experience of life b. Writing style c. Themes 2、Main works 3、Introduction of The Old Man and the Sea 4、Reciting a classical paragraph 1、Brief introduction of the author a. Experience of life Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist who was born and raised in Oak橡树 Park, Illinois. After leaving high school he worked for a few months as a reporter for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to become an ambulance driver during World War I, which became the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. He was seriously wounded and returned home within the year. In 1922 Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives, and the couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. After divorcing Hadley Richardson in 1927 Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced following Hemingways return from covering the Spanish Civil War, after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940, but he left her for Mary Welsh after World War II, during which he was present at D-Day and the liberation of Paris.Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952 Hemingway went on trip to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 40s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho,(岂彻姆 ,爱达荷 ) where he committed suicide in the summer. b.Writing style The New York Times wrote in 1926 of Hemingways first novel: No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises. It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame.The Sun Also Rises is written in the spare, tightly written prose, for which Hemingway is famo