Great Expectations

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.

Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.

Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. Cliffhanger endings in his serial publications kept readers in suspense. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens improved the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed, and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor chipped in ha'pennies to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers.

Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell, G. K. Chesterton and Tom Wolfe —for his realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.

出版者:Bantam Classics
作者:Charles Dickens
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页数:458
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出版时间:1982-09-01
价格:USD 4.95
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780553213423
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In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, atiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by ashivering, limping convict on the run. Yearslater, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coachto London where, by the grace of a mysteriousbenefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle richand "become a gentleman." Finally, in theluminous mists of the village at evening, Pip theman meets Estella, his dazzingly beautifultormentor, in a ruined garden--and lays to rest all theheartaches and illusions that his "greatexpectations" have brought upon him. Dickens'sbiographer, Edgar H. Johnson, has said that--exceptfor the author's last-minute tampering with hisoriginal ending-- Great Expectations is "the most perfectly constructed andperfectly written of all Dickens's works." In JohnIrving's Introduction to this edition, thenovelist takes the view that Dickens's revised ending is"far more that mirror of the quality of trust inthe novel as a whole." Both versions of theending are printed here.

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今天终于看完了英国作家狄更斯的著作《远大前程》。 小说中的主人公皮普像坐在我旁边,围在火炉前,亲切地给我讲述了他跌宕起伏的一生。皮普是个孤儿,由她姐姐和忠诚憨厚的好姐夫--乔一起带大。自从去一次阔妇人家后,他的心态和命运都悄然发生了变化,然而意外的好运也让他梦...  

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Great Expectations。不知为何,比起A Tale of Two Cities,喜欢这本书尤甚。而比起《孤星血泪》这样悲怆的名字,反而也更喜欢《远大前程》的意味深长。网上有好事者归纳讨论了该词组的意思,expectation,是期望、是预想、也是前路漫漫;great,是光荣,是憧憬,是声势浩大,...  

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终于把狄更斯老爷子这本书读完了。读的过程很艰难,尤其在网上看过一句话说,如果你觉得读不下去的书,就扔掉,换别的书读。我也一度想放弃,但我总觉得这样对不起狄更斯老爷子,我也想知道过程有时晦涩一些,那结局究竟会哪样?我也不确定自己是否真的能读下去,我有个不太好...  

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"I want to be a gentleman"

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Oh~Pip

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"I want to be a gentleman"

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NOT my king of the novel: new/original ending; sentimentality; caricatures; eccentricity;coincidences; emotional interest;fairy tales

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好难啊。大师就是大师

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