雾都孤儿（狄更斯） Everyman's Library Classics：Oliver Twist

基本信息

Format Hardback | 528 pages

Dimensions 132 x 211 x 25mm | 544g

Publication date 03 Nov 1992

Publisher Random House USA Inc

Imprint Everyman's Library USA

Edition Statement Reprint

ISBN10 0679417249

ISBN13 9780679417248

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

本书讲述孤儿奥立弗·退斯特从小在贫民习艺所受尽欺凌，逃到伦敦后又不幸陷入贼窟。身边的世界像一台疯狂运转的机器，小奥立弗却努力坚守着心底深处的纯净与高贵。这份执著终于帮他等来了柳暗花明：布朗劳先生、梅里太太等人及时伸出援助之手；与此同时，奥立弗奇特的身世也一步步真相大白。小说在深入揭示社会弊病的同时，也在英国文学史上留下一连串栩栩如生的人物形象，一百多年来深受读者爱戴。

这个版本重印了G.K.Chesterton的原版常人介绍，并包括George Cruikshank的二十四幅插图。

Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape.

One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickens's great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation-through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikes-of the vast London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver Twist one of its author's most loved works.

This edition reprints the original Everyman's introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.

作者简介

查尔斯狄更斯（1812―1870）

19世纪英国伟大的小说家。他主要描写生活在英国社会底层人的生活，揭露上层社会和资产阶级的虚伪、贪婪，深刻反映了当时英国复杂的社会现实，同时也以理想主义和浪漫主义情怀讴歌了人性的真善美，被后世奉为“召唤人们回到欢笑和仁爱中来的明灯”。马克思把他和萨克雷等称誉为英国的“一批杰出的小说家”。

他一生著述颇丰，代表作有《双城记》《大卫科波菲尔》《小杜丽》《远大前程》《雾都孤儿》《艰难时世》《荒凉山庄》等。

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.