CHARLES DICKENS was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.
First published on December 19, 1843, A Christmas Carol was an instant classic: Londoners thronged to hear Dickens read it in person and bought out the first printing in days. Its reception was so ecstatic that it is credited with helping to revive interest among the Victorians in Christmas traditions, including caroling and holiday cards, as well as inciting an unexpected wave of charitable giving from Britain’s Industrial Age robber barons. Originally conceived as a pamphlet against exploitative capitalism before taking its current form, it has inspired dozens of theatrical and movie adaptions, and its characters, from Scrooge to Tiny Tim, are forever inscribed in our hearts and minds.
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看的是原版書,單詞不難,都能看明白,劇情並不復雜,而且有些神化,看到幽靈帶他迴到過去時,心裏很是震顫,感受到內心最脆弱的部分,整部小說透露齣人生哲理。看完後,纔知道原來的大名鼎鼎的狄更斯的作品,果然是精品。
評分看的是原版書,單詞不難,都能看明白,劇情並不復雜,而且有些神化,看到幽靈帶他迴到過去時,心裏很是震顫,感受到內心最脆弱的部分,整部小說透露齣人生哲理。看完後,纔知道原來的大名鼎鼎的狄更斯的作品,果然是精品。
評分看的是原版書,單詞不難,都能看明白,劇情並不復雜,而且有些神化,看到幽靈帶他迴到過去時,心裏很是震顫,感受到內心最脆弱的部分,整部小說透露齣人生哲理。看完後,纔知道原來的大名鼎鼎的狄更斯的作品,果然是精品。
評分狄更斯的這篇作品很短——但是據作者說很用心寫,用詞和語言不難,不過依然很華麗。故事的主題很老套,錶現手法也算不得新穎,應該算是為孩子和需要童話的大人寫的小人書。 根據Ruth Goodman在BBC的Victorian Farm紀錄片裏的說法,這本書不但總結瞭截至狄更斯寫作年代的許多聖...
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A Christmas Carol 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載