The Old Man and the Sea (50Th Anniversary Edition) (English-Chinese Bilingual)

The novel "The Old Man and the Sea (50th Anniversary Edition) (English-Chinese Bilingual Hardcover Edition)" was written by Ernest Hemingway in Cuba in 1952 and published in 1952. This is the last important work in his life. The novel was published in "Life" magazine on September 1, 1952, setting an astonishing record of selling 5 million copies in two days. It was published in book form that month, with an initial printing of 50,000 copies. In 1952, Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for this book. In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature and attracted the attention of the world's literary world. "The Old Man and the Sea" has now been translated into many national languages ​​and is recommended as a student reading. The story told in the book couldn't be simpler: An old man named Santiago, after eighty-four days of fishing and returning empty-handed, rowed alone to the distant sea to catch big fish. On the vast sea, with no water, no food, no assistants, and even no weapons in the end, with great love, great wisdom, and great courage, he killed a big marlin and countless sharks, and returned with the bare skeleton of a big marlin bigger than a small boat. Such a short novella reveals the profound mystery of the philosophy of life. The spirit of "people can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated" is still very precious. This short but not insignificant masterpiece interprets the meaning of existence, the dignity of life and the nobility of spirit with the profound connotation of the sea and the concise language of telegraph. On the 50th anniversary of Hemingway's death, we invited Mr. Zhang Baihua to retranslate and publish this book in a bilingual hardcover edition to commemorate this great writer. Let the noble spirit of mankind be immortal!