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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正當羅斯小姐考慮如何行動時,奧立弗告訴她,他找到瞭布朗洛先生。羅斯小姐就和布朗洛商議瞭處理方法。羅斯小姐在布朗洛陪同下再次和南希會麵時,布朗洛獲知濛剋斯即他的已故好友埃得溫·利弗得的不孝兒子,決定親自找濛剋斯交涉,但他們的談話被費金派齣的密探聽見。塞剋斯就凶殘的殺害瞭南希。南希之死使費金團夥遭到瞭滅頂之災。費金被捕,後上瞭絞刑架,塞剋斯在逃竄中失足被自己的繩子勒死。與此同時,濛剋斯被布朗洛挾持到傢中,逼他供齣瞭一切,事情真相大白,奧立弗被布朗洛收為養子,從此結束瞭他的苦難的童年。為瞭給濛剋斯自新的機會,把本應全歸奧立弗繼承的遺産分一半給他。但濛剋斯劣性不改,把傢産揮霍殆盡,繼續作惡,終被鋃鐺入獄,死在獄中。邦布爾夫惡有惡報,被革去一切職務,一貧如洗,在他們曾經作威作福的濟貧院度過餘生。
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在這本書中,奧立弗、南希、羅斯小姐都是善良的代錶,他們都齣生於苦難之中,在黑暗和充滿罪惡的世界中成長,但在他們的心中始終保持著一片純潔的天地,一顆善良的心,種種磨難並不能使他們墮落或徹底墮落,反而更顯示齣他們齣汙泥而不染的光彩奪目的晶瑩品質。最後,邪不勝正,正義的力量戰勝瞭邪惡,雖然南希最後遇難,但正是她的死所召喚齣來的驚天動地的社會正義力量,正是她在冥冥中的在天之靈,注定瞭邪惡勢力的代錶——費金團夥的滅頂之災。因此在小說中,南希的精神得到瞭升華,奧利弗則得到瞭典型意義上的善報。而惡人的代錶——費金、濛剋斯、邦布爾、塞剋斯無不一一落得個悲慘的下場。
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大衛科波菲爾,不解釋瞭。
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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.
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正當羅斯小姐考慮如何行動時,奧立弗告訴她,他找到瞭布朗洛先生。羅斯小姐就和布朗洛商議瞭處理方法。羅斯小姐在布朗洛陪同下再次和南希會麵時,布朗洛獲知濛剋斯即他的已故好友埃得溫·利弗得的不孝兒子,決定親自找濛剋斯交涉,但他們的談話被費金派齣的密探聽見。塞剋斯就凶殘的殺害瞭南希。南希之死使費金團夥遭到瞭滅頂之災。費金被捕,後上瞭絞刑架,塞剋斯在逃竄中失足被自己的繩子勒死。與此同時,濛剋斯被布朗洛挾持到傢中,逼他供齣瞭一切,事情真相大白,奧立弗被布朗洛收為養子,從此結束瞭他的苦難的童年。為瞭給濛剋斯自新的機會,把本應全歸奧立弗繼承的遺産分一半給他。但濛剋斯劣性不改,把傢産揮霍殆盡,繼續作惡,終被鋃鐺入獄,死在獄中。邦布爾夫惡有惡報,被革去一切職務,一貧如洗,在他們曾經作威作福的濟貧院度過餘生。
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價格不菲,質量沒的說,非常好…
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大衛科波菲爾,不解釋瞭。
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"Howards End is a classic English novel . . . superb and wholly cherishable . . . one that admirers have no trouble reading over and over again," said Alfred Kazin.
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