| 词条 | David Copperfield |
| 释义 | 图书信息出版社: Bantam Classics; 1 (1981年9月1日) 外文书名: 块肉余生记 丛书名: Bantam Classics 作者：查尔斯·约翰·赫芬姆·狄更斯（Charles John Huffam Dickens，1812年2月7日~1870年6月9日） 正文语种: 英语 开本: 32开 ISBN: 0553211897 条形码: 9780553211894 尺寸: 18.1 x 10.6 x 3.9 cm 重量: 445 g 作者简介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. 内容简介Book Description `I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. This new edition features an enlarged text, revised notes, and a new introduction. It uses the accurate Clarendon text, and also includes Dickens's trial titles and working notes, and eight of the original illustrations by `Phiz'. Reviews Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man's rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sends him to work in a factory--as did Dickens's own father), then by a kindly aunt. He trains for a career in law, but eventually becomes a writer. An ill-advised marriage brings him considerable unhappiness, but not long after his wife's death he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. A sprawling portrait of life in Victorian England, DAVID COPPERFIELD is perhaps Dickens's most popular work, and it contains many of the characters--Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth, and Little Emily--who gave Dickens his reputation as the finest literary portraitist of his age. About Author 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. Book Dimension: length: (cm)17.4 width:(cm) 10.6 媒体评论"The most perfect of all the Dickens novels." --Virginia Woolf From the Trade Paperback edition. -- Review 目录Ⅰ I Am Born Ⅱ I Observe. Ⅲ I Have a Change Ⅳ I Fall into Disgrace Ⅴ I Am Sent Away from Home Ⅵ I Enlarge My Circle of Acquaintance Ⅶ My 'First Half' at Salem House Ⅷ My Holidays. Especially One Happy Afternoon Ⅸ I Have a Memorable Birthday Ⅹ I Become Neglected, and Am Provided For Ⅺ I Begin Life on My Own Account, and Don't Like It Ⅻ Liking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a Great Resolution ⅫⅠ The Sequel of My Resolution ⅩⅣ My Aunt Makes Up Her Mind about Me ⅩⅤ I Make Another Beginning ⅩⅥ I Am a New Boy in More Senses Than One ⅩⅦ Somebody Turns Up ⅩⅧ A Retrospect ⅩⅨ I Look about Me, and Make a Discovery ⅩⅩ Steerforth's Home ⅩⅪ Little Em'ly ⅩⅫ Some Old Scenes, and Some New People ⅩⅫⅠ I Corroborate Mr. Dick, and Choose a Profession ⅩⅩⅣ My First Dissipation ⅩⅩⅤ Good and Bad Angels ⅩⅩⅥ I Fall into Captivity ⅩⅩⅦI Tommy Traddles ⅩⅩⅧ Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet ⅩⅩⅨ I Visit Steerforth at His Home, Again ⅩⅩⅩ A Loss ⅩⅩⅩⅠ A Greater Loss ⅩⅩⅩⅡ The Beginning of a Long Journey ⅩⅩⅩⅢ Blissful ⅩⅩⅩⅣ My Aunt Astonishes Me ⅩⅩⅩⅤ Depression …… |
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