內容簡介

Charles Dickens’s story of selfless Little Nell and her ailing grandfather and their persecution by the magnificently malignant villain Quilp has seized the imaginations and wrung the hearts of generations of readers.

Dickens’s talent was superabundant in every way: in his dramatic force and his massive productivity, in his almost surreal comic power, in his compassion and thirst for justice, and in the imaginative pressure he brought to bear on even the most incidental of his characters. The delightfully various figures in The Old Curiosity Shop range memorably from jaunty Dick Swiveller and his little half-starved Marchioness to the hard-hearted siblings Sampson and Sally Brass, jovial Mrs. Jarley, devoted Kit Nubbles, the hunchbacked Daniel Quilp, and, of course, tragic Little Nell herself. Dickens’s depiction of the fate of his main characters is famously harrowing and unfailingly suspenseful, but not the least of its charms is that it is embellished with a supporting cast of figures as grotesque and colorful as anything in the Old Curiosity Shop itself.
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This edition reprints the original Everyman’s preface by G. K. Chesterton and features seventy-five illustrations by Cattermole and Phiz.

很棒很棒很棒。

人人文庫的經典原版圖書，相當不錯

　　我重又低頭看書，看的是比維剋①的《英國禽鳥史》。一般說來，這本書的文字部分我不大愛看，但是有幾頁導言，我雖說是個孩子，卻也不能完全當作空白翻過去。那幾頁導言寫到海鳥常去的地方；寫到隻有海鳥居住的“孤寂的岩石和海岬”；寫到挪威的海岸，從最南麵的林訥斯內斯角②或者納斯到北角③，沿著海岸綫，點綴著許多海島——那裏，北冰洋捲起巨大的鏇渦，圍繞著世界盡頭光禿淒涼的海島咆哮，大西洋的驚濤駭浪激蕩起落，注入風雨交加的赫布裏底群島④。

書是人類的朋友。

狄更斯早年傢境小康，小時候曾經在一所私立學校接受過一段時間的教育，但是父母經常大宴賓客，金錢上沒有節製，12歲時，狄更斯的父親就因債務問題而入獄，一傢人隨著父親遷至牢房居住，狄更斯也因此被送到倫敦一傢鞋油場當學徒，每天工作10個小時。或許是由於這段經曆，備嘗艱辛、屈辱，看盡人情冷暖，使得狄更斯的作品更關注底層社會勞動人民的生活狀態。小說《大衛·科波菲爾》中，就是描寫瞭自己這一段遭遇。

　　我重又低頭看書，看的是比維剋①的《英國禽鳥史》。一般說來，這本書的文字部分我不大愛看，但是有幾頁導言，我雖說是個孩子，卻也不能完全當作空白翻過去。那幾頁導言寫到海鳥常去的地方；寫到隻有海鳥居住的“孤寂的岩石和海岬”；寫到挪威的海岸，從最南麵的林訥斯內斯角②或者納斯到北角③，沿著海岸綫，點綴著許多海島——那裏，北冰洋捲起巨大的鏇渦，圍繞著世界盡頭光禿淒涼的海島咆哮，大西洋的驚濤駭浪激蕩起落，注入風雨交加的赫布裏底群島④。

到貨速度比預期的快。

狄更斯神作，被低估的作品。

人人文庫的經典原版圖書，相當不錯