内容简介
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella. Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels. This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.
作者简介
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.
查尔斯·狄更斯(Charles Dickens,1812~1870),1812年生于英国的朴次茅斯。父亲过着没有节制的生活,负债累累。年幼的狄更斯被迫被送进一家皮鞋油店当学徒,饱尝了艰辛。狄更斯16岁时,父亲因债务被关进监狱。从此,他们的生活更为悲惨。工业革命一方面带来了19世纪前期英国大都市的繁荣,另一方面又带来了庶民社会的极端贫困和对童工的残酷剥削。尖锐的社会矛盾和不公正的社会制度使狄更斯决心改变自己的生活。15岁时,狄更斯在一家律师事务所当抄写员并学习速记,此后,又在报社任新闻记者。在《记事晨报》任记者时,狄更斯开始发表一些具有讽刺和幽默内容的短剧,主要反映伦敦的生活,逐渐有了名气。他了解城市底层人民的生活和风土人情,这些都体现在他热情洋溢的笔端。此后,他在不同的杂志社任编辑、主编和发行人,其间发表了几十部长篇和短篇小说,主要作品有《雾都孤儿》、《圣诞颂歌》、《大卫·科波菲尔》和《远大前程》等。
狄更斯的作品大多取材于与自己的亲身经历或所见所闻相关联的事件。他在书中揭露了济贫院骇人听闻的生活制度,揭开了英国社会底层的可怕秘密,淋漓尽致地描写了社会的黑暗和罪恶。本书起笔便描写了主人公奥利弗生下来便成为孤儿,以及在济贫院度过的悲惨生活。后来,他被迫到殡仪馆做学徒,又因不堪忍受虐待而离家出走。孤身一人来到伦敦后,又落入了窃贼的手中。狄更斯在其作品中大量描写了黑暗的社会现实,对平民阶层寄予了深切的向情,并无情地批判了当时的社会制度。他在小说描写的现实性和人物的个性化方面成绩是突出的。他成为继莎士比亚之后,塑造作品人物数量最多的一个作家。
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有评论家认为《远大前程》与法国作家巴尔扎克的《幻灭》相似,因为两者都描写了青年人建筑在沙土上的“灿烂似锦”的前途最后如何破灭的故事,实际上《远大前程》更着重反映了社会环境和人的意识行为互为关连的问题。
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掩卷而思,除了乔和毕蒂,每个人都悲剧收场,虽然他们俨然本性善良,至少没做错什么。埃斯苔娜在幽灵般的郝维仙小姐身边长大,对幸福的渴求已然泯灭。资助皮普的囚犯似乎什本性并不坏,一切都是社会的责任。皮普无非是个向往伦敦的穷孩子,命运却一再残忍的戏弄他。想起赫伯特和克拉娜也许能算得上另一对幸福的人,就像乔和毕蒂。也许狄更斯是在赞赏单纯而善良的人们。
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“那天,我抬头仰视着天空的繁星,感到这些星星都是些可怜的星星,下贱的星星,一位这些星星所照射的不过是我曾生活期间的乡村野景。
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