查尔斯·狄更斯：荒凉山庄 英文原版 Alma Classics:Bleak House

基本信息/Product Details

Series:Evergreens

Format:Paperback 992 pages

Publisher:Alma Books Ltd

ISBN:9781847496713

Published:21 Apr 2021

Weight:624g

Dimensions:132 x 197 x 52 (mm)

Language:English

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介/Book Description

《荒凉山庄》被认为是作家查尔斯·狄更斯的极高成就之一，他对维多利亚时期的伦敦的文字描写更是无人能出其右。

本书讲述了冰美人戴德洛克，终日厮守着一个自己不堪回首的秘密，以及一个无情的律师图荆霍尔，试图揭开这一谜团的故事。为人慷慨的约翰·贾丹斯，身陷与往事的纠缠和他的两个年轻的被监护人理查德和艾达之间。 和戴德洛克女士一样，这些人全部被牵扯进一宗名为“贾丹思指控贾丹思”的案件当中，如果终审裁决，其中一方将获得一笔巨大的财富。

本书题材辐射社会纵深，上至达官显贵下至街头贫民；故事本身则充满了戏剧性，描写手法娴熟；为观影者呈现了一部故事情节和史诗人物的盛宴；作者对19世纪英国政治和司法系统针砭时弊，其警示作用不可小觑。

The interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has gone on for so long that it has become a subject of mirth in legal circles and a source of great profit to those professionally engaged in it. Held in its inexorable grip - along with a diverse cross section of mid-Victorian society, from baronets to crossing-sweepers - are two wards of court, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, who, along with the selfless Esther Summerson, are taken in by the kindly philanthropist John Jarndyce, owner of the eponymous Bleak House. But as the legal machinery grinds mercilessly on, the quixotic but feckless Richard, determined to resolve the lawsuit once and for all, seems doomed to be crushed under its weight, while Esther uncovers a shocking mystery concerning her own past.

Elsewhere, others are driven to ever more heinous acts, including blackmail - and even murder. Part panoramic social satire and - with the introduction of the indefatigable police investigator Mr Bucket - part prototype of the detective genre, this dark, complex and intricately plotted book is considered by many to be both Dickens's greatest work and the finest novel of the Victorian age.

作者简介/Author

狄更斯（1812—1870），继莎士比亚之后对于世界文学影响极大的作家之一。19世纪英国批判现实主义小说家。狄更斯特别注意描写生活在英国社会底层的“小人物”的生活遭遇，深刻地反映了当时英国复杂的社会现实，为英国批判现实主义文学的开拓和发展做出了卓越的贡献。其高超的、富有节奏感的叙事方式，生动记录社会现实（英国维多利亚时代）的能力以及作品中积极倡导的人道主义精神，都是狄更斯的标志性特色。代表作包括《匹克威克外传》（1837）、《雾都孤儿》（又名《奥列弗·特维斯特》1838）、《老古玩店》（1841）、《马丁·瞿述伟》（1844）、《大卫·科波菲尔》（1850）、《艰难时世》（1854）、《双城记》（1859）、《远大前程》（1861）等。

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was an English writer, generally considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters. He continues to be one of the best-known and most read of English authors, with multiple adaptations of his work frequently being produced.