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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读这本书,于主线之外,关注到其中旁逸的一些情节。有一种领悟,原来,现代社会之于人的深刻影响长久以来便存在。 譬如,贾格斯律师事务所里的办事员威米克,这个人物给我留下的更深刻印象不是他的精明干练,而是他把在小不列颠街的工作和在瓦尔沃思城堡的生活截然分开...  

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所有人物 都设定的那么旗帜鲜明那么值得回味 除了主人公pip!

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Oh~Pip

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发誓再也不读鸡精斯的我再一次迫于压力读了这本。阅读体验极差,休要提什么阅读快感了。情节设计有点做作,背后是全知作者时不时的神兵天降。比如Joe为什么就得这么不计前嫌地对Pip好,就连后者自己都早已意识到自己的ingratitude?是把他当亲儿子了?Orlick凭什么就能坏成这样,就因为Pip阻碍了他的春天?Magwitch这个人的确就是个magic witch,因为他的整个行动价值体系简直就是受magic操控,毫无逻辑可言。在所有角色里,Estella是可以再好好打磨一下的。但是again,打磨人物可能并非鸡精斯的志趣所在。还有,他为什么总觉得要把所有人物都通过各种机缘巧合和神秘的身世之谜串在一起才可以呢?妥妥的畅销书套路。

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Dickens肯定超级爱The London Merchant这个剧...

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