本书提供了与《老人与海》有关的翔实的背景资料，并为读者的进一步研究提供了建议。

·   Introduction

·   A Literary Analysis of The Old Man and the Sea

·   The Cuban Environment: Geography and Climate and the Living Organisms They

   Support

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PATRICIA DUNLAVY VALENTI is Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, and Languages at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. She is also coordinator of the Graduate Program in English Education there. Her primary area of scholarship is American literature.