艰难时世（狄更斯）   Everyman's Library Classics：Hard Times Charles Dickens；Phil Collins

基本信息

Series:Everyman's Library Classics Series

Format:Hardback 336 pages

Publisher:Random House USA Inc

Imprint:Everyman's Library USA

ISBN:9780679413233

Published:2 Jun 1992

Weight:488g

Dimensions:211 x 132 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

"生活中只需要事实"。格拉德林德先生学校的孩子们被严厉地命令扼杀他们的想象力，只注意冷酷无情的现实。格拉德格林德的教育对他自己的孩子汤姆和路易莎的影响特别深远，使他们没有能力处理人类内心不可预测的欲望。幸运的是，他们有一个朋友，就是马戏团小丑的孩子Sissy Jupe，尽管周围的压力很大，但她仍然保持着热心肠、有同情心的天性。

到1854年《艰难岁月》出版时，查尔斯-狄更斯作为作家的巨大进步已经包含了对英国社会的多面性、连贯性的看法，包括它的现状和他所希望的样子。艰难时世》是狄更斯式的经典救赎故事，故事发生在一个受工业主义困扰的英格兰北部城镇，它处处受益于这一愿景--它的讽刺意味浓厚，它对社会不公的愤慨之情溢于言表，它的作者用持久的人性来活跃他大和小的事件。

"Facts alone are wanted in life." The children at Mr. Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. The effects of Gradgrind's teaching on his own children, Tom and Louisa, are particularly profound and leave them ill-equipped to deal with the unpredictable desires of the human heart. Luckily for them, they have a friend in Sissy Jupe, the child of a circus clown, who retains her warm-hearted, compassionate nature despite the pressures around her.

By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as he wished it to be. Hard Times, a classic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of England town beset by industrialism, everywhere benefits from this vision - in the trenchancy of its satire, in its sweeping indignation at social injustice, and in the persistent humanity with which its author enlivens his largest and smallest incidents.

作者简介

菲利普-柯林斯是《狄更斯咏叹调》和《狄更斯与教育》的作者，也是狄更斯和萨克雷访谈集的编辑。他曾是莱斯特大学英语系的名誉教授。

Philip Collins is the author of Dickens aria Crime and Dickens and Education, and the editor of volumes of interviews with Dickens and Thackeray. He was formerly Emeritus Professor of English at Leicester University.