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.
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.
原本抱着看“名著”的心态去想着啃这本书,却没想到狄更斯的笔下的文字是如此地生动形象,活泼幽默…尤其给我印象特别深的就是里边的心理描写,非常真实,让人感觉好像就是直白而又平实地写出了在某种特定境遇下一般人所拥有的想法,一般会带有很生动的修辞。 这就让我不仅在体...
評分人们总是容易忙着追求,却很难发现有很多美好的事物曾经就在身边.当有1天我们意识到这1点的时候,那些美好的事物早已远去,我们没有办法回到以前,为此我们只能抱以淡淡1笑,笑曾经那个莽撞的 傻傻的自己;笑现在这个落寞的 无奈的自己.人生好像电影,是1门充满遗憾的艺术!当然也有...
評分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...
評分狄更斯的这部经典小说很有魅力,既风趣幽默又寓意深刻,好看易读而又令人感概良多,就如品了一杯好酒,历久弥香,回味无穷。书名为远大前程,实际却是一场真实发生而又破灭的幻梦,是主人公皮普的一场华丽旅程,从雾气弥漫、沼泽遍地的英国乡村质朴生活到繁华都市伦敦的...
評分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...
Oh~Pip
评分所有人物 都設定的那麼旗幟鮮明那麼值得迴味 除瞭主人公pip!
评分無聊
评分A Dream! Pip and Estella , Joe ,Hebert , I spent almost 3 weeks reading it , hoping worthy.
评分還是去年有一天跟老馬夫婦在肯特的Oare Marshes看鳥,他們跟我說這地方就是狄更斯great expectations小說裏主人公遇見逃犯的地方,於是決定無論如何要看看這本小說。緩慢地終於讀完瞭。覺得好玩的是為瞭人物的塑造,在英語中狄更斯特意寫齣瞭口音感,雖然剛開始造成瞭我閱讀的時候的“大霧”,習慣後還挺有意思的。But書的內容本身還是在我期望之下,情節有些拖遝,有些故意設計的巧閤的情節以為是伏筆但後續沒有故事上推進就隻是個巧閤而已,人物有時突然齣現,甚至莫名的齣現,又大段消失,讓人理解不瞭動機,也理解不瞭大段刻畫的意義。
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