The Old Curiosity Shop 英文原版 [精装] 下载 mobi epub pdf 电子书 2024

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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.

　　“白茜说我干了什么？”我问。

其它都好，就是价太高了点

　　层层叠叠的猩红帷幔挡住了我右边的视线，左边却是明亮的玻璃窗，它保护着我，让我受不到阴郁的11月天气的侵袭，却又不把我与外界隔绝。在翻书页的当儿，我偶尔眺望一下冬日午后的景色。远处，只见一片白茫茫的雾霭；附近，却是湿漉漉的草坪和风雨袭击下的灌木，连绵不断的雨让一阵经久不息的凄凄寒风驱赶着狂驰而过。

其它都好，就是价太高了点

其它都好，就是价太高了点

　　上面提到的伊丽莎、约翰和乔奇安娜·里德，这时候都在休憩室里，正簇拥在他们的母亲周围，她斜靠在炉边的沙发上，心爱的儿女都在身旁（这忽儿既不争吵，又不哭闹），看上去很是快活。她没让我和他们在一起；她说她很遗憾，不得不叫我离他们远一点；她真的不能把只给知足快乐的小孩的那些特权给我，除非是白茜告诉了她，而且还要她自己亲眼看到，我确实是在认认真真地努力培养一种更加天真随和的性情，一种更加活泼可爱的态度——大概是更轻快、更坦率、更自然的一种什么吧。

　　我重又低头看书，看的是比维克①的《英国禽鸟史》。一般说来，这本书的文字部分我不大爱看，但是有几页导言，我虽说是个孩子，却也不能完全当作空白翻过去。那几页导言写到海鸟常去的地方；写到只有海鸟居住的“孤寂的岩石和海岬”；写到挪威的海岸，从最南面的林讷斯内斯角②或者纳斯到北角③，沿着海岸线，点缀着许多海岛——那里，北冰洋卷起巨大的旋涡，围绕着世界尽头光秃凄凉的海岛咆哮，大西洋的惊涛骇浪激荡起落，注入风雨交加的赫布里底群岛④。

　　我倒是很高兴，我素来不爱远距离的散步，特别是在寒冷的下午。对我来说，在阴冷的黄昏回家实在可怕，手指和脚趾都冻僵了，还得听保姆白茜的责骂，弄得心里很不痛快，而且自己觉得体质不如伊丽莎、约翰和乔奇安娜·里德，又感到低人一等。

　　我倒是很高兴，我素来不爱远距离的散步，特别是在寒冷的下午。对我来说，在阴冷的黄昏回家实在可怕，手指和脚趾都冻僵了，还得听保姆白茜的责骂，弄得心里很不痛快，而且自己觉得体质不如伊丽莎、约翰和乔奇安娜·里德，又感到低人一等。