Spring Tide and the Old Man and the Sea -- Works of Hemingway

Author: (American) Hemingway, translated by Wu Lao
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: When the wife and daughter of young American writer Scripps ONeill leave, he leaves in a snowstorm to find work. In a small restaurant, he meets Diana, a middle-aged British waitress who loves literature, and they get married at lightning speed. As a result, he becomes a piece-rate worker at the city's water pump factory. Unbeknownst to him, the new waitress who replaces Diana, Mandy, is full of literary anecdotes and eloquent, captivating Scripps. Yoga Johnson, a worker at the same factory as Scripps, had a "fling" in Paris during World War I but ended up being swindled, after which he no longer wanted to find a woman. However, an naked Indian woman, was driven out, and wandered aimlessly on the street. Yoga followed her, took off his clothes one by one, and walked into the night with her. At the transition of winter and spring, a series of strange events occurred in the northern mountain city of Michigan, forming the core plot of Hemingway's early middle《》. "The Old Man and the Sea" tells the story of an old fisherman's struggle with a big fish, with a profound theme that won Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature. It has been widely welcomed in China. This time, the translator has revised the translation and included it in "The Collected Works of Hemingway."