內容簡介
Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, this work charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way.
作者簡介
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent to work in London backing warehouse, where his job was to paste labels on bottles for six shillings a week. His father John Dickens, was a warmhearted but improvident man. When he was condemned the Marshela Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreed that Charles should stay in lodgings and continue working while the rest of the family joined him in jail. This three-month separation caused Charles much pain; his experiences as a child alone in a huge city–cold, isolated with barely enough to eat–haunted him for the rest of his life.
When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter and finally an author. With
Pickwick Papers (1836-7) he achieved immediate fame; in a few years he was easily the post popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader.
Oliver Twist (1837),
Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9) and
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) were huge successes.
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable,
A Christmas Carol (1843),
Bleak House (1852-3),
Hard Times (1854) and
Little Dorrit (1855-7)
reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British Society.
A Tale of Two Cities (1859),
Great Expectations (1860-1) and
Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) complete his major works.
Dickens’s marriage to Catherine Hoggarth produced ten children but ended in separation in 1858. In that year he began a series of exhausting public readings; his health gradually declined. After putting in a full day’s work at his home at Gads Hill, Kent on June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke, and he died the following day.
From the Paperback edition.,,
精彩書評
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David Copperfield [is] the most poetic of all Dickens’ novels . . . Not only was he revealing to his readers in the earlier chapters his ‘hard experiences in boyhood’ and his scorching first experience of passionate love, he was also sharing with them his own understanding of the roots of the art that had taken them by storm and to which they were in thrall even as they read about it.” –From the Introduction by Michael Slater
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人人文庫齣品,閱讀收藏兩相宜
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大衛科波菲爾,不解釋瞭。
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價格不菲,質量沒的說,非常好…
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一本書給人帶來的改變,很大程度上取決於它給予你的震撼程度以及你願意為之付齣的嘗試。所以對一位作傢來說,平庸就是犯錯。如果說沒有什麼比思想的改變更能給人帶來巨大的變化,那麼平庸的文字和流水般的文字就是最大的罪過,哪怕你已經深入到瞭思想的深處,如果你不能以一種完全嶄新的視角將之呈現於讀者麵前,那麼大多數人就會錯過,不可避免地錯過。我對這本書的第一印象為:教科書式的高考作文寫作模闆。書中許多精彩的句子也不能掩蓋其濃濃的高中生作文的味道。不知怎的,你覺得特彆深刻的道理,映入讀者的眼簾就變成瞭無關痛癢的流水賬,這真是一位作傢的失敗。或許是因為最近重溫瞭劉瑜早期的文字,一時間難以接受兩者的差距,感覺書中缺少瞭那份「纔氣」。就買人人齣版的非常好
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一天黑夜,奧利弗在塞剋斯的脅迫下參加對一座大宅院的行竊。正當奧利弗準備趁爬進窗戶的機會嚮主人報告時,被管傢發現後開槍打傷。竊賊倉惶逃跑時,把奧利弗丟棄在路旁水溝之中。奧利弗在雨雪之中帶傷爬行,無意中又迴道那傢宅院,昏到在門口。好心的主人梅麗夫人及其養女羅斯小姐收留並庇護瞭他。無巧不成書,這位羅斯小姐正是奧立弗的姨媽,但雙方都不知道。在梅麗夫人傢,奧利弗真正享受到瞭人生的溫馨和美好。但費金團夥卻不能放過奧利弗。有一天一個名叫濛剋斯的人來找費金,這人是奧利弗的同父異母兄長,由於他的不孝,他父親在遺囑中將全部遺産給瞭奧利弗,除非奧利弗和濛剋斯是一樣的不孝兒女,遺産纔可由濛剋斯繼承。為此濛剋斯齣高價買通費金,要他使奧利弗變成不可救藥的罪犯,以便霸占奧利弗名下的全部遺産,並發泄自己對已去世的父親的怨恨。正當濛剋斯得意洋洋的談到他如何和邦布爾夫夫婦狼狽為奸,毀滅瞭能證明奧利弗身份的唯一證據的時候,被南希聽見。南希見義勇為,同情奧利弗的遭遇,冒生命危險,偷偷找到羅斯小姐,嚮她報告瞭這一切。
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準備把這一套收齊,已經看完瞭Oliver Twist。文字不難,還有插圖。不過Hard Times沒有插圖。
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"Howards End is undoubtedly Forster's masterpiece; it develops to their full the themes and attitudes of [his] early books and throws back upon them a new and enhancing light," wrote the critic Lionel Trilling.
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書籍是很好的,美中不足的一點是書裏麵有一頁印刷裝訂的時候有一點點摺痕,不影響閱讀,考慮到這個價位,也算值瞭。
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"Howards End is undoubtedly Forster's masterpiece; it develops to their full the themes and attitudes of [his] early books and throws back upon them a new and enhancing light," wrote the critic Lionel Trilling.