Norton Critical Editions: Bleak House 英文原版 荒凉山庄 诺顿文学解读系列 Charles Dickens

基本信息

By (author) Charles Dickens , Edited by George Ford , Edited by Sylvere Monod

Format Paperback | 1024 pages

Dimensions 132 x 216 x 30mm | 643g

Publication date 17 Dec 1977

Publisher WW Norton & Co

Publication City/Country New York, United States

Language English

Edition Critical

Edition Statement Critical edition

ISBN10 0393093328

ISBN13 9780393093322

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

小说的一条线索围绕大法官法庭审理“加迪斯控告加迪斯”这一神秘财产诉讼案展开。加迪斯家的一个先人发了一笔横财，去世前留下了遗嘱，但遗嘱稀奇古怪，没人可以读懂。后代们为了争夺遗产，消耗了青春，献出了满腔热情，但最终只能心灰意冷，甚至郁郁而终。大法官法庭对这个案件的审理一拖再拖，一晃几十年过去了，诉讼费用耗完了所有财产，整个案件也就不了了之。很多人成了僵化死板的法律条文和墨守成规的国家机器的牺牲品。作品充分暴露了英国司法制度的腐朽和无能、律师们的贪心本性和龌龊行径。小说的另一条线索围绕伊斯特·萨摩森小姐及其生母德罗克夫人的秘密展开。伊斯特是德罗克夫人在婚前与霍顿船长偷情所生的私生女。德罗克夫人以为情夫和孩子早已不在人世，自己的秘密永远不会被揭穿。但狡猾邪恶的家庭律师图经霍恩偶然发现了这个秘密，对德罗克夫人步步紧逼，后者选择了离家出走，最后死在了昔日情夫的墓前。而夫人的私生女在监护人约翰·加迪斯的庇护和帮助下，过上了幸福美满的生活。

Study of the genesis of the novel is facilitated by the reproduction of Dickens' working plans and, for the first time, by some thousands of meticulous textual notes.

"Backgrounds" offers all of Dickens' correspondence about Bleak House as well as contextual materials that document the Victorian controversy over pollution, a theme central to the novel, and present contemporary attitudes toward the government, the courts, and the police, to enhance the setting of the story.

Also featured are several hundred annotations which fully elucidate for today's readers the allusions and topical references in this remarkably allusive Victorian masterpiece.

Especially helpful is a clear exposition of the nature of law procedures in the Court of Chancery, which is crucial to an understanding of the central action of the story.

"Critical essays" reprinted here include interpretations by G. K. Chesterton, J. Hillis Miller, George Ford, A. O. J. Cockshut, W. J. Harvey, H. M. Daleski, and Ian Ousby.

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. George Ford was Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Rochester. He was the author of Keats and the Victorians, Dickens and His Readers, Double Measure: A Study of the Novels and Stories of D. H. Lawrence, and The Making of a Secret Agent. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and was editor, with Sylvere Monod, of the Norton Critical Edition of Hard Times. Professor Ford was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University. He died in 1994.

Sylvere Monod is Emeritus Professor of English at the Sorbonne. He is the author of Dickens the Novelist, Histoire de la literature anglaise de Victoria y Elizabeth II, Martin Chuzzlewit: A Critical Study, and Madame Homais (a novel). He is editor, with George Ford, of the Norton Critical Edition of Hard Times, and of numerous French editions of works by Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, and the Brontes. Professor Monod is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a Commander of the British Empire.