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版次：1
页数：400
字数：
印刷时间：1985年05月01日
开本：32开
纸张：胶版纸
包装：平装
是否套装：否
国际标准书号ISBN：9780553211764

作者:Charles Dickens 著出版社:Random House US出版时间:1985年05月

内容简介

　　The timeless classic of love and sacrifice during the French Revolution! With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his tale with such memorable characters as the evil Madame Defarge and her knitted patterns of death, the gentle Lucie Manette and her unfailing devotion to her downtrodden father, and the courageous Sydney Carton, who would give his own love--and life--for a woman that would never be his.

作者简介

　　Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport,Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eightchildren, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financialinsecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sentto work in London backing warehouse, where his job was to pastelabels on bottles for six shillings a week. His father JohnDickens, was a warmhearted but improvident man. When he wascondemned the Marshela Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreedthat Charles should stay in lodgings and continue working while therest of the family joined him in jail. This three-month separationcaused Charles much pain; his experiences as a child alone in ahuge city–cold, isolated with barely enough to eat–haunted him forthe rest of his life.

<p>　　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.<br />
　　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. Olive
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.<br />
　　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.</p>

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