Hard times / Bantam classic ed.

作者：  by Charles Dickens ; introduction by Robert Donald Spector.

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简介：      在线阅读本书          Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens’s weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Timeswas a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author of The Pickwick Papersand The Old Curiosity Shop. Compressed, stark, allegorical, it is a bitter exposé of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution–and a fierce denunciation of the philosophy of materialism, which threatens the human imagination in all times and places. With a typically unforgettable cast of characters–including the heartless fact-worshipper     Mr. Gradgrind, the warmly endearing Sissy Jupe, and the eternally noble Stephen Blackpool–Hard Timescarries a uniquely powerful message and remains one of the most widely read of Dickens’s major novels.

A tale of two cities /

作者：  by Charles Dickens.

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简介：　　Novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 　　1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background 　　of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas 　　Carlyle's history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of 　　London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than 　　accuracy. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, 　　if superficial in historical understanding. The complex plot involves 　　Sydney Carton's sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends 　　Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. While political events drive the 　　story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both 　　aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess--the latter memorably 　　caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine. The book 　　is perhaps best known for its opening lines, "It was the best of times, 　　it was the worst of times," and for Carton's last speech, in which he 　　says of his replacing Darnay in a prison cell, "It is a far, far better 　　thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest 　　that I go to, than I have ever known." -- The Merriam-Webster 　　Encyclopedia of Literature --This text refers to an out of print or 　　unavailable edition of this title. 　　 　　The timeless classic of love and sacrifice during the French Revolution! 　　With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his tale with such memorable 　　characters as the evil Madame Defarge and her knitted patterns of death, 　　the gentle Lucie Manette and her unfailing devotion to her downtrodden 　　father, and the courageous Sydney Carton, who would give his own love-- 　　and life--for a woman that would never be his.

Great expectations / Bantam classic ed.

作者：  by Charles Dickens ; with an introfuction by John Irving.

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简介： Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, the orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself.

A Christmas carol / Bantam classic ed.

作者：  by Charles Dickens.

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简介：　　This is a beautiful new edition of Charles Dickens' most beloved 　　story, "A Christmas Carol." Large format (6"x9"), printed on high 　　quality paper.

David Copperfield /

作者：  abridged for public reading by Charles Dickens ; illustrated by Alan Marks ; afterword by Anthea...

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简介：　　Book Description 　　`I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. 　　This new edition features an enlarged text, revised notes, and a new introduction. It uses the accurate Clarendon text, and also includes Dickens's trial titles and working notes, and eight of the original illustrations by `Phiz'. 　　Reviews 　　Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man's rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sends him to work in a factory--as did Dickens's own father), then by a kindly aunt. He trains for a career in law, but eventually becomes a writer. An ill-advised marriage brings him considerable unhappiness, but not long after his wife's death he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. A sprawling portrait of life in Victorian England, DAVID COPPERFIELD is perhaps Dickens's most popular work, and it contains many of the characters--Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth, and Little Emily--who gave Dickens his reputation as the finest literary portraitist of his age. 　　About Author 　　Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent to work in London backing warehouse, where his job was to paste labels on bottles for six shillings a week. His father John Dickens, was a warmhearted but improvident man. When he was condemned the Marshela Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreed that Charles should stay in lodgings and continue working while the rest of the family joined him in jail. This three-month separation caused Charles much pain; his experiences as a child alone in a huge city–cold, isolated with barely enough to eat–haunted him for the rest of his life. 　　When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter and finally an author. With Pickwick Papers (1836-7) he achieved immediate fame; in a few years he was easily the post popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader. Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) were huge successes. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852-3), Hard Times (1854) and Little Dorrit (1855-7) reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British Society. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) complete his major works. 　　Dickens’s marriage to Catherine Hoggarth produced ten children but ended in separation in 1858. In that year he began a series of exhausting public readings; his health gradually declined. After putting in a full day’s work at his home at Gads Hill, Kent on June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke, and he died the following day.