The Old Curiosity Shop 英文原版 [精裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf 電子書 2024

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Charles Dickens’s story of selfless Little Nell and her ailing grandfather and their persecution by the magnificently malignant villain Quilp has seized the imaginations and wrung the hearts of generations of readers.

Dickens’s talent was superabundant in every way: in his dramatic force and his massive productivity, in his almost surreal comic power, in his compassion and thirst for justice, and in the imaginative pressure he brought to bear on even the most incidental of his characters. The delightfully various figures in The Old Curiosity Shop range memorably from jaunty Dick Swiveller and his little half-starved Marchioness to the hard-hearted siblings Sampson and Sally Brass, jovial Mrs. Jarley, devoted Kit Nubbles, the hunchbacked Daniel Quilp, and, of course, tragic Little Nell herself. Dickens’s depiction of the fate of his main characters is famously harrowing and unfailingly suspenseful, but not the least of its charms is that it is embellished with a supporting cast of figures as grotesque and colorful as anything in the Old Curiosity Shop itself.
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This edition reprints the original Everyman’s preface by G. K. Chesterton and features seventy-five illustrations by Cattermole and Phiz.

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狄更斯早年傢境小康，小時候曾經在一所私立學校接受過一段時間的教育，但是父母經常大宴賓客，金錢上沒有節製，12歲時，狄更斯的父親就因債務問題而入獄，一傢人隨著父親遷至牢房居住，狄更斯也因此被送到倫敦一傢鞋油場當學徒，每天工作10個小時。或許是由於這段經曆，備嘗艱辛、屈辱，看盡人情冷暖，使得狄更斯的作品更關注底層社會勞動人民的生活狀態。小說《大衛·科波菲爾》中，就是描寫瞭自己這一段遭遇。

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狄更斯1812年齣生於英國樸次茅斯，是海軍職員約翰·狄更斯和伊麗莎白·巴洛所生的第二個孩子。狄更斯5歲時全傢就遷居占鬆，10歲時又搬到康登鎮（今屬倫敦）。

狄更斯神作，被低估的作品。