In the squalor of a textile town, successful businessman and arch-pragmatist Thomas Gradgrind, proclaiming that he is a self-made man, teaches his children to suppress their imagination and embrace hard facts. He arranges the marriage of his daughter Louisa to Josiah Bounderby, an unattractive, boastful manufacturer who is thirty years older than she. Gradgrind believes that he has succeeded as a father when his son Thomas goes to work in Bounderby's bank. When Tom steals from his employer and Louisa flees the horror of her marriage, Gradgrind must acknowledge the error of his lifelong devotion to facts and utility.
这是狄更斯最出名的作品,狄更斯用冷俊的嘲讽笔调表现出对大英帝国的讽刺。当时的大英帝国刚开始成为世界帝国,虽然还保有着贵族阶层,不过资产阶级已经是社会主流,五金批发商葛擂硬已经是国会议员,而庞得贝的管家斯巴塞太太显然是个贵族的旁枝出身,这应该是暗示着贵族们已...
评分这是狄更斯最出名的作品,狄更斯用冷俊的嘲讽笔调表现出对大英帝国的讽刺。当时的大英帝国刚开始成为世界帝国,虽然还保有着贵族阶层,不过资产阶级已经是社会主流,五金批发商葛擂硬已经是国会议员,而庞得贝的管家斯巴塞太太显然是个贵族的旁枝出身,这应该是暗示着贵族们已...
评分这本书在狄更斯的小说中不算最好的,但是他在书中给我们提了一个问题供我们大家思考,那就是人类是不是只要理性,实际和功利主义,而不要感性、感情和爱。如今我们大多数人已变成了只讲实际的人,交朋友只交往以后对我们有用的人;读书只读励志类、财经类(以上两类书,我们可...
评分看的第一本狄更斯的英文原作,不得不说读的很辛苦,因为个人词汇量低,一边不停的翻字典一边琢磨每个句子的逻辑,半天也看不了几章 但光是那些句子就让人觉得妙不可言了,大概这是英语非母语的人看英文有限才会有的感慨吧…… 不过有些感觉是看原文才有的,即使自己来翻不一定...
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