Great Expectations 

基本信息

Author: Charles Dickens

Format: Paperback | 776 pages

Publisher WW Norton & Co

ISBN10 0393960692

ISBN13 9780393960693

Publication 05 Nov 2014

Dimensions: 145 x 236 x 23mm | 584g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍介绍

本书为读者提供了对《远大前程》的开端和内部年表的理解。此外，还讨论了这本小说的公众阅读版本。内容极其丰富的“背景”部分共13篇，围绕小说的主要主题展开，包括作者与英雄之间的联系，以及维多利亚时代关于绅士、势利和社会流动性的观念；1800年左右出生的孩子在家里和学校接受残酷的训练；和犯罪和惩罚的核心问题。

The newly established text is based on all extant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays.

"Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included. A wonderfully rich "Contexts" section collects thirteen pieces, centering on the novel's major themes: the link between author and hero and, relatedly, Victorian notions of gentility, snobbishness, and social mobility; the often brutal training, at home and at school, of children born around 1800; and the central issues of crime and punishment.

"Criticism" gathers twenty-two assessments of Great Expectations, both contemporary and modern, which offer a range of perspectives on Dickens and his novel.

作者简介

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the most acclaimed and popular writers of all time. His many works include the classics The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Pickwick Papers and many more. A native of Germany, Edgar Rosenberg received his Ph.D. at Stanford University and since 1965 as been Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of From Shylock to Svengali and some fifty pieces of short fiction, translations, and articles in journals ranging from Esquire to Commentary to The Dickensian. He has taught at San Jose State College and Harvard University, has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University and the University of Haifa, and has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, Bread Loaf, and Stanford Fiction Fellowships as well as the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award at Cornell.