Charles Dickens

出版者:Penguin Press

作者:Claire Tomalin

页数:576

出版时间:2011-10-27

价格:GBP 22.50

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781594203091

图书标签:传记DickensCharlesBritainBiography非虚构Great

The tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by unparalleled literary biographer Claire Tomalin. When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the strength of ordinary people. In his last years Dickens drew adoring crowds to his public appearances, had met presidents and princes, and had amassed a fortune. Like a hero from his novels, Dickens trod a hard path to greatness. Born into a modest middle-class family, his young life was overturned when his profligate father was sent to debtors' prison and Dickens was forced into harsh and humiliating factory work. Yet through these early setbacks he developed his remarkable eye for all that was absurd, tragic, and redemptive in London life. He set out to succeed, and with extraordinary speed and energy made himself into the greatest English novelist of the century. Years later Dickens's daughter wrote to the author George Bernard Shaw, "If you could make the public understand that my father was not a joyous, jocose gentleman walking about the world with a plum pudding and a bowl of punch, you would greatly oblige me." Seen as the public champion of household harmony, Dickens tore his own life apart, betraying, deceiving, and breaking with friends and family while he pursued an obsessive love affair. Charles Dickens: A Life gives full measure to Dickens's heroic stature-his huge virtues both as a writer and as a human being- while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye. Renowned literary biographer Claire Tomalin crafts a story worthy of Dickens's own pen, a comedy that turns to tragedy as the very qualities that made him great-his indomitable energy, boldness, imagination, and showmanship-finally destroyed him. The man who emerges is one of extraordinary contradictions, whose vices and virtues were intertwined as surely as his life and his art.

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BBC radio 4, Book of the week. 整本书是听完的，共75分钟。感觉从这本书改编来的reading比较focus狄更斯的成就和伟绩，对与他生活二十多年，育有八个孩子的结发妻子没有怎么提及，包括狄更斯狠心与Catherine办理seperation。还有狄更斯名扬海内外之时，对他的各种谣言等等也...

BBC radio 4, Book of the week. 整本书是听完的，共75分钟。感觉从这本书改编来的reading比较focus狄更斯的成就和伟绩，对与他生活二十多年，育有八个孩子的结发妻子没有怎么提及，包括狄更斯狠心与Catherine办理seperation。还有狄更斯名扬海内外之时，对他的各种谣言等等也...

BBC radio 4, Book of the week. 整本书是听完的，共75分钟。感觉从这本书改编来的reading比较focus狄更斯的成就和伟绩，对与他生活二十多年，育有八个孩子的结发妻子没有怎么提及，包括狄更斯狠心与Catherine办理seperation。还有狄更斯名扬海内外之时，对他的各种谣言等等也...

BBC radio 4, Book of the week. 整本书是听完的，共75分钟。感觉从这本书改编来的reading比较focus狄更斯的成就和伟绩，对与他生活二十多年，育有八个孩子的结发妻子没有怎么提及，包括狄更斯狠心与Catherine办理seperation。还有狄更斯名扬海内外之时，对他的各种谣言等等也...

BBC radio 4, Book of the week. 整本书是听完的，共75分钟。感觉从这本书改编来的reading比较focus狄更斯的成就和伟绩，对与他生活二十多年，育有八个孩子的结发妻子没有怎么提及，包括狄更斯狠心与Catherine办理seperation。还有狄更斯名扬海内外之时，对他的各种谣言等等也...

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实际读的是 “ Charles Dickens: Compassion and Contradiction [Kindle Edition] Karen Kenyon ”， 没有ISBN 不能加。

实际读的是 “ Charles Dickens: Compassion and Contradiction [Kindle Edition] Karen Kenyon ”， 没有ISBN 不能加。

实际读的是 “ Charles Dickens: Compassion and Contradiction [Kindle Edition] Karen Kenyon ”， 没有ISBN 不能加。

实际读的是 “ Charles Dickens: Compassion and Contradiction [Kindle Edition] Karen Kenyon ”， 没有ISBN 不能加。

实际读的是 “ Charles Dickens: Compassion and Contradiction [Kindle Edition] Karen Kenyon ”， 没有ISBN 不能加。