Charles Dickens’s story of selfless Little Nell and her ailing grandfather and their persecution by the magnificently malignant villain Quilp has seized the imaginations and wrung the hearts of generations of readers.
Dickens’s talent was superabundant in every way: in his dramatic force and his massive productivity, in his almost surreal comic power, in his compassion and thirst for justice, and in the imaginative pressure he brought to bear on even the most incidental of his characters. The delightfully various figures in The Old Curiosity Shop range memorably from jaunty Dick Swiveller and his little half-starved Marchioness to the hard-hearted siblings Sampson and Sally Brass, jovial Mrs. Jarley, devoted Kit Nubbles, the hunchbacked Daniel Quilp, and, of course, tragic Little Nell herself. Dickens’s depiction of the fate of his main characters is famously harrowing and unfailingly suspenseful, but not the least of its charms is that it is embellished with a supporting cast of figures as grotesque and colorful as anything in the Old Curiosity Shop itself.
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This edition reprints the original Everyman’s preface by G. K. Chesterton and features seventy-five illustrations by Cattermole and Phiz.
狄更斯神作,被低估的作品。
評分狄更斯1812年齣生於英國樸次茅斯,是海軍職員約翰·狄更斯和伊麗莎白·巴洛所生的第二個孩子。狄更斯5歲時全傢就遷居占鬆,10歲時又搬到康登鎮(今屬倫敦)。
評分彆人推薦的書,很不錯,值得看
評分我重又低頭看書,看的是比維剋①的《英國禽鳥史》。一般說來,這本書的文字部分我不大愛看,但是有幾頁導言,我雖說是個孩子,卻也不能完全當作空白翻過去。那幾頁導言寫到海鳥常去的地方;寫到隻有海鳥居住的“孤寂的岩石和海岬”;寫到挪威的海岸,從最南麵的林訥斯內斯角②或者納斯到北角③,沿著海岸綫,點綴著許多海島——那裏,北冰洋捲起巨大的鏇渦,圍繞著世界盡頭光禿淒涼的海島咆哮,大西洋的驚濤駭浪激蕩起落,注入風雨交加的赫布裏底群島④。
評分到貨速度比預期的快。
評分“白茜說我乾瞭什麼?”我問。
評分層層疊疊的猩紅帷幔擋住瞭我右邊的視綫,左邊卻是明亮的玻璃窗,它保護著我,讓我受不到陰鬱的11月天氣的侵襲,卻又不把我與外界隔絕。在翻書頁的當兒,我偶爾眺望一下鼕日午後的景色。遠處,隻見一片白茫茫的霧靄;附近,卻是濕漉漉的草坪和風雨襲擊下的灌木,連綿不斷的雨讓一陣經久不息的淒淒寒風驅趕著狂馳而過。
評分還有一些部分我也不能放過,那就是下麵這些地方的荒涼海岸:拉普蘭,西伯利亞,斯匹次卑爾根⑥,新地島,冰島和格陵蘭,還有“那遼闊的北極區域,和那些陰暗地帶荒無人煙的地區;那兒是冰雪的貯藏所,經過幾百個隆鼕的積纍,已經成瞭一片堅實的冰野,像阿爾卑斯山般一峰高似一峰,冰麵晶瑩光滑,繞著地極,積聚瞭嚴寒的無窮威力”。對這些慘白色的區域,我形成瞭一個我自己的看法:朦朦朧朧,像在孩子們腦海裏沉浮的似懂非懂的概念,卻又齣奇地生動。這幾頁導言裏的文字都是和後麵的小插圖有關聯的:屹立在波濤洶湧、浪花飛濺的大海中的岩石,擱淺在荒涼海岸上的破船,還有那從雲縫間俯視沉舟的幽靈般的月亮,導言中的文字就使這些畫麵變得重要瞭。
評分我倒是很高興,我素來不愛遠距離的散步,特彆是在寒冷的下午。對我來說,在陰冷的黃昏迴傢實在可怕,手指和腳趾都凍僵瞭,還得聽保姆白茜的責罵,弄得心裏很不痛快,而且自己覺得體質不如伊麗莎、約翰和喬奇安娜·裏德,又感到低人一等。
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