Wordsworth Collector's Editions：A Christmas Carol

基本信息

Series:Wordsworth Collector's Editions

Format:Hardback 144 pages

Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Imprint:Wordsworth Editions Ltd

ISBN:9781840227819

Published: 7 Sep 2018

Classifications:Interest age: from c 10 years, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:192g

Dimensions:181 x 146 x 15 (mm)

Firm Sale:Yes

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《圣诞颂歌》是其中著名、温暖、令人心寒的节日故事。在这本书中，我们看到了埃比尼泽•斯克鲁奇(Ebenezer Scrooge)，他的名字是贪婪和吝啬的同义词:“每一个嘴上挂着‘圣诞快乐’的白痴，都应该用自己的布丁煮一煮，然后用冬树木桩刺穿心脏埋葬。”这种态度很快就受到了挑战，因为他的老伙伴雅各布·马利的鬼魂在圣诞夜从坟墓里回来缠着他。

之后，过去、现在和未来的三个圣诞精灵依次拜访了斯克鲁奇，每个精灵都向他揭示了自己的错误，并逐渐融化了这个老吝啬鬼冰冷的心，引导他走向救赎。在与斯克鲁奇的旅程中，我们遇到了大量狄更斯笔下的人物，包括可怜的克拉奇蒂一家和生病的小蒂姆，以及慷慨而快乐的费齐威格。1843年，查尔斯·狄更斯(Charles Dickens)写了一首圣诞颂歌，他将它作为献给世界的一份不朽的礼物，捕捉到了圣诞节爱、善良和慷慨的精髓。

这是一部永恒的经典之作，故事令人振奋的魔力至今仍像刚出版时一样强大。

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon challenged when the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, returns from the grave to haunt him on Christmas Eve.

Scrooge is then visited in turn by three spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future, each one revealing the error of his ways and gradually melting the frozen heart of this old miser, leading him towards his redemption. On the journey we take with Scrooge we encounter a rich array of Dickensian characters including the poor Cratchit family with the ailing Tiny Tim and the generous and jolly Fezziwig. When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843 he fashioned an enduring gift to the world, capturing the essence of the love, kindness and generosity of the Christmas season.

It is a timeless classic and the story's uplifting magic remains as potent today as when it was first published.

作者简介

查尔斯·约翰·赫奇姆·狄更斯（Charles John Huffam Dickens）1812年出生于朴茨茅斯，父亲是一名职员，在八个孩子中排行老二。当他的父亲被关进债务人监狱时，他被迫离开学校去工厂工作。他从未忘记这段经历:这种处境的耻辱和他所忍受的恶劣条件，常常反映在他小说中的许多人物所遭受的不公平待遇上。他自学了速记，最终成为了一名议会辩论的记者，之后开始为各种期刊撰写诙谐的文章，这些文章后来被博兹收集并以速写的形式发表。狄更斯在文学上的成功始于1836年连续出版的《匹克威克报》。接着是《雾都孤儿》(1837)。这个故事的灵感来自于狄更斯对自己贫困童年的回忆。从1838年到1841年，他出版了《尼古拉斯·尼克尔比的生平与冒险》、《老古董店》和《巴纳比·鲁吉》。到19世纪40年代，他已成为国际文学名人，以他的幽默、讽刺和对性格和社会的敏锐观察而闻名。他的小说大多以每月或每周分期出版的形式出版，开创了叙事小说连载出版的先路，这成为维多利亚时代小说最初呈现的主导模式。

连载出版的形式让狄更斯可以评估他的观众的反应，他经常根据这些反馈修改情节和人物发展。他的情节是精心构建的，他经常从局部事件编织元素到他的叙述。大批文盲穷人掏出几个铜板，让人给他们朗读每月新一期的故事，从而激发了一批新的读者。随着狄更斯声名鹊起，他不仅在英国受到欢迎，在美国也受到欢迎。他1843年的中篇小说《圣诞颂歌》立即成为畅销书，许多人认为这部小说奠定了现代圣诞节的基础。狄更斯的作品是惊人的，似乎伟大的小说从他的笔轻易地溢出。在这些优秀的文学作品中有《大卫·科波菲尔》(1850)和《远大前程》(1860)，像他的许多小说一样，这些作品让人想起维多利亚时代早期的伦敦;《荒凉山庄》(1853年)，揭露了法律制度的错误和腐败;《双城记》(1859)，故事发生在法国大革命时期的伦敦和巴黎。从列夫·托尔斯泰到乔治·奥威尔，再到g.k.切斯特顿，查尔斯·狄更斯因其现实主义、喜剧、散文风格、独特的性格和社会批判而受到同行的称赞。另一方面，奥斯卡·王尔德、亨利·詹姆斯和弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙则抱怨他们缺乏心理深度、写作散漫，还有一种柔情蜜意的伤感主义风格。关于这最后一点，王尔德说，他在1841年从古董店读到小内尔的死时，不能不笑。作为一名伟大的小说家，狄更斯在舞台表演中发展出一种新的、复合的艺术形式，从他自己的作品中特别改编了一些段落，并变换了他的表情和说话方式，使他似乎被自己创造的人物迷住了。他的阅读之旅为他在大西洋两岸赢得了巨大的声誉。在1870年，他死于中风，很有可能是因为在一大群观众面前表演所需要的体力消耗。这位作家的最后一部小说《埃德温·德鲁德之谜》在他去世时没有完成。公众对他去世的悲痛之情溢于言表，这表明在他多产而又异常成功的写作生涯中，他与读者建立了非凡的关系。

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812, the son of a clerk and the second of eight children. He was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. He never forgot this experience: the ignominy of this situation and the harsh conditions he endured are often reflected in the unfair treatment many of his characters undergo in his novels. He taught himself shorthand and eventually became a reporter of parliamentary debates before starting to write witty pieces for various periodicals which were later collected together and published as Sketches by Boz. Dickens literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Oliver Twist (1837) followed. The story was inspired by Dickens memories of his own impoverished childhood. From 1838 to 1841, he published The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. By the 1840s he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for initial presentation of a novel. 

The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified plot and character development based on such feedback. His plots were carefully constructed, and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor chipped in a few coppers to have each new monthly episode read to them, inspiring a new class of readers. As Dickens fame spread and he was feted not only in this country but also in America. His 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, which many regard as laying the foundations of what we regard as the modern Christmas, was an instant bestseller. Dickens output was prodigious and it seemed that great novels spilled easily from his pen. Amongst these fine works of literature are David Copperfield (1850) and Great Expectations (1860), which like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London; Bleak House (1853), which exposed the fallibility and corruption of the legal system; and A Tale of Two Cities (1859), set in London and Paris, at the time of the French Revolution. Charles Dickens has been praised by fellow writers - from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton - for his realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. On this last point, Wilde observed that he could not read of the death of Little Nell from The Old Curiosity Shop 1841) without laughing. As well as being a great novelist, Dickens developed a new, composite art form in his stage performances, acting out specially adapted passages from his own works and varying his expressions and speech patterns, so that it seemed as if he were becoming possessed by the characters he created. His reading tours won him huge popular acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. And in all probability the physical exertion required to perform in front of large audiences contributed to his premature death, from a stroke, in 1870. The author s last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood was left uncompleted when he died. The public outpouring of grief at his death was indicative of the extraordinary relationship he had developed with his audience over a prolific and extraordinarily successful writing career.