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《老人与海(鲸歌英文原版)》是海明威于1951年在古巴写的一篇中篇小说，于1952年出版。它是海明威创作并在他还在世时出版的很后一部主要的虚构作品。作为他很有名的作品之一，它围绕一位老年古巴渔夫，与一条巨大的马林鱼在离岸很远的湾流中搏斗。虽然对它有不同的文学评价，但它在20世纪小说和海明威的作品中是值得注目的，奠定了他在世界文学中的突出地位，对于他1954年获得诺贝尔文学奖也起了重要作用。同时该书也被评为影响历史的百部经典之一；美国历目前里程碑式的32本书之一。
After a decade-long absence, Mayer returns to picture books, using computer-generated graphics to illustrate an original tale set in long-ago Japan. When the emperor's daughter, Shibumi, discovers the poverty-stricken world beyond her garden walls, she longs to resolve the inequity. Tying herself to an enormous kite fashioned for her by the royal kite-maker, she takes flight, telling her father that she will not come down until the city below "is as beautiful as the palace, or the palace is as squalid as the city." Wealthy noblemen who wish to preserve the status quo mount an attack, and the kite carries off both Shibumi and the kite-maker. The bereaved emperor spends his years trying to make amends, and in the end a young samurai sets out to find the princess and restore her to her father and the transformed city. Mayer grounds his message in familiar fairy tale elements, and proceeds at a leisurely pace. His computer art approaches the brooding style of his paintings in East of the Sun & West of the Moon (a
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