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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9787544611350丛书名: 英国作家生平丛书
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作者简介：Elizabeth James is Head of British Collections, 1801-1914, at The British Library, where she has been responsible for a number of exhibitions relating to nineteenth-century authorship and publishing. Her previous books include Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928 (The British Library; 1990) and Penny Dreadfuls and Boys’ Adventures (co-authored with Helen Smith,TheBritish Library, 1998); she is currently working on an edition of Nicholas Nickleby for the Clarendon Press.
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is probably Britain’s best-known and best-loved author. His novels, such as Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol, have delighted generations of readers with their warmth and gentle humour, and his own colourihl and hectic life helped to shape some of his most vibrant scenes and famous characters.
His impoverished childhood – dogged by his father’s debts and imprisonment in London – and years as a parliamentary journalist and legal clerk, brought Dickens first-hand experience of city life, enabling him to expose its realities, injustices and hardships in works such as Oliver Twist, Bleak House and Little Dorrit. He was often disillusioned with society and championed the welfare of the common man through social, education and housing reforms, which found some of their widest expression in over a hundred articles he wrote for his weekly magazine, Household Words. Father of ten children, Dickens struggled with an unhappy marriage, but he worked untiringly all his life, achieving great fame and fortune. His reading tours, which indulged his love of the stage, enabled him to reach his audiences in Britain and America, and his editing and writing have produced an abundant legacy which continues to inform and delight readers to this day.
Illustrated throughout with letters, manu*s, engravings and photographs, Elizabeth ]ames’s concise biography provides a revealing portrait of a prolific, talented and highly esteemed literary genius.
His impoverished childhood – dogged by his father’s debts and imprisonment in London – and years as a parliamentary journalist and legal clerk, brought Dickens first-hand experience of city life, enabling him to expose its realities, injustices and hardships in works such as Oliver Twist, Bleak House and Little Dorrit. He was often disillusioned with society and championed the welfare of the common man through social, education and housing reforms, which found some of their widest expression in over a hundred articles he wrote for his weekly magazine, Household Words. Father of ten children, Dickens struggled with an unhappy marriage, but he worked untiringly all his life, achieving great fame and fortune. His reading tours, which indulged his love of the stage, enabled him to reach his audiences in Britain and America, and his editing and writing have produced an abundant legacy which continues to inform and delight readers to this day.
Illustrated throughout with letters, manu*s, engravings and photographs, Elizabeth ]ames’s concise biography provides a revealing portrait of a prolific, talented and highly esteemed literary genius.
目 录
EARLY CHILDHOOD 1812-1822
LONDON 1822-1827
APPRENTICE YEARS 1827-1836
THE INIMITABLE BOZ 1837-1842
AMERICA 1842-1844
EUROPE 1844-1846
DOMBEY AND SON AND
DAVID COPPERFIELD 1847-1851
DARKENING DAYS 1852-1856
THE END OF HIS MARRIAGE 1857-1858
CELEBRATED AUTHOR 1859-1865
FINAL YEARS 1865-1870
CHRONOLOGY
FURTHER READING
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LONDON 1822-1827
APPRENTICE YEARS 1827-1836
THE INIMITABLE BOZ 1837-1842
AMERICA 1842-1844
EUROPE 1844-1846
DOMBEY AND SON AND
DAVID COPPERFIELD 1847-1851
DARKENING DAYS 1852-1856
THE END OF HIS MARRIAGE 1857-1858
CELEBRATED AUTHOR 1859-1865
FINAL YEARS 1865-1870
CHRONOLOGY
FURTHER READING
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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