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  • Roots

    作者:Alex Haley

    The monumental bestseller! Alex Haley recaptures his family's history in this drama of eighteenth-century slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants.
  • In the Skin of a Lion

    作者:Michael Ondaatje

    Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.
  • The Horse and His Boy

    作者:C. S. Lewis,Pauline

    A wild gallop for freedom. Narnia... where horses talk... where treachery is brewing... where destiny awaits. On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh and narrow lives, they soon find themselves at the center of a terrible battle. It is a battle that will decide their fate and the fate of Narnia itself.
  • 他们

    作者:[美国]乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨

    本书是美国著名女作家乔伊斯・卡罗尔・奥茨的一部力作,出版后获美国全国图书奖。本书通过对温德尔一家经历的描写,展现了三十到六十年代美国下层人民的生活图景。善良而浅薄的洛雷塔几经生活的打击,变得麻木不仁,逆来顺受。大儿子朱尔斯早年离家,在社会底层挣扎,结果遭枪击几乎丧命。女儿莫琳为钱卖身,后来嫁给一个已有三个孩子的男人,变得冷漠而自私。小说采用自然主义的手法,展示了美国在高度发达的物质文明掩盖下矛盾,颓废和罪恶的一面
  • 愛因斯坦的夢

    作者:愛倫‧萊特曼

    愛因斯坦所作的十幾個夢中:有時是用雕刻的藝術,把時間凝成永恒的石像。有時用圖畫的藝術,把時間繪為繽紛的落英。有時用音樂的藝術,把時間譜為一曲悠揚的歌,唱來哀樂卻不由自主。有時用燈罩上的蟲蟻來寫輪迴上的時間,爬了半天,回到原位;有時用河流中的聚葉,來寫淤塞的時間,漩於角落,再出不來。時間如叢立的鏡面,影像複製成千,重映成萬;時間如枝頭的小鳥,人們想捉而捉不到,但捉到時鳥卻立即死亡。
  • The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

    作者:Wallace Stevens

    This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains: - andquot; Harmoniumandquot; - andquot; Ideas of Orderandquot; - andquot; The Man With the Blue Guitarandquot; - andquot; Parts of the Worldandquot; - andquot; Transport Summerandquot; - andquot; The Auroras of Autumnandquot; - andquot; The Rockandquot;
  • Perfume

    作者:Patrick Suskind

    An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. Translated from the German by John E. Woods.
  • 红字

    作者:Nathaniel Hawthorne

    《红字》是美国小说家霍桑最杰出的代表作,也是整个美国浪漫主义小说中最有声望的权威作品之一。小说的故事发生在十七世纪中期加尔文者派统治下的波士顿,作者从当时的社会现状入手,通过一个感人的爱情故事悲剧来揭露当局对人们精神、心灵和道德的摧残,是一部不可不读的经典。
  • 苔依丝

    作者:法朗士,Anatole France

  • Mrs. Dalloway

    作者:Virginia Woolf

    Clarissa Dalloway, in her fifties, wife of an English MP, emerges from her house in Westminster one fine June morning to buy flowers for her party. And by that simple act she entwines her life with the lives of others who will hear, with her, Big Ben toll away the hours of their destinies that day. "Clarissa's day captures in a definite matrix the drift of thought and feeling in a period, the point of view of a class, and seems almost to indicate the strength and weakness of a civilization." (The New York Times)
  • Much Ado About Nothing

    作者:William Shakespeare

    在线阅读本书 Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best earlyprinted version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books Essay by Gail Kern Paster The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs.
  • The Crucible

    作者:Arthur Miller

    在线阅读本书 Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism. Introduction by Christopher Bigsby
  • The Woman in White

    作者:Wilkie Collins

    “There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.” Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared in 1860, and it has continued to enthrall readers ever since. From the hero’s foreboding before his arrival at Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautiful Laura, the breathtaking tension of Collins’s narrative created a new literary genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped the course of English popular writing. Collins’s other great mystery, The Moonstone, has been called the finest detective story ever written, but it was this work that so gripped the imagination of the world that Wilkie Collins had his own tombstone inscribed: “Author of The Woman in White .”
  • 莎士比亚戏剧集(全八册)

    作者:威廉·莎士比亚

    《莎士比亚戏剧集(共8册)》:莎士比亚,英国诗人、戏剧家。1564年4月23日生于沃里克郡埃文河畔的斯特拉特福镇。其父约翰·莎士比亚经营羊毛、皮革制造及谷物生意,1565年任镇民政官,3年后被选为镇长。莎士比亚幼年在当地文法学校读书,1582年同邻乡农家女安·哈瑟维结婚。1585~1592年莎士比亚经历不详,传说他当过乡村教师、兵士、贵族家仆,并因偷猎乡绅T.路希爵士之鹿逃往伦敦,先在剧院门前为人看马,后逐渐成为剧院杂役、演员并开始剧作生涯。1592年,剧院经理P.亨斯娄首先提到莎士比亚的剧作《亨利六世》上篇。同年,剧作家R.格林在其《千悔得一智》中影射莎士比亚姓氏,并引用《亨利六世》下篇台词,骂莎士比亚是“一只暴发户式的乌鸦”,可见他当时已颇有名望。1594年,他和当时名演员W.坎普、J.伯比奇同属宫内大臣剧团,同当时新贵族骚桑普顿伯爵、埃塞克斯伯爵等均有来往。他的剧团除在天鹅剧场、环球剧场演出外,也到宫廷演出,夏季或瘟疫流行期间,则到外省演出。1596年,莎士比亚以其他名义申请到“绅士”称号及家徽,1597年在斯特拉特福购置了房产,1599年成为环球剧场拥有1/10股份的股东。1610年莎士比亚卖出了他的股份,回乡隐居。1616年4月23日在家乡病逝,葬于镇上的圣三一教堂。 莎士比亚在22或23年间共写了37部戏剧,其中只有16部在他生前以4开本盗印版出版。原因是因当时作家将剧本卖给剧团,剧团为垄断便不发表,被盗印的剧本则是由演员口授,或在演出时被人速记下来,故而版本多有遗漏和错误。1623年,莎士比亚去世7年后,曾与他在国王供奉剧团(前身即宫内大臣剧团)共事的演员海明和康德尔收集莎士比亚遗作36部(其中有20部是首次付印),出版了第一个莎士比亚戏剧集,即后人所谓第一对开本,其中的剧目不是按创作年代,而是按喜剧、历史剧和悲剧3类编排的。从18世纪后期开始学者们研究了莎剧的创作年代、分类和分期问题,但说法不一。一般来说,莎士比亚的戏剧创作可分以下3个时期: 第一时期(1590~1600)以写作历史剧、喜剧为主,有9部历史剧、10部喜剧和2部悲剧。9部历史剧中除《约翰王》是写13世纪初英国历史外,其他8部是内容相衔接的两个4部曲:《亨利六世》上 、中、下篇与《理查三世》;《理查二世》、《亨利四世》上、下篇与《亨利五世》。这些历史剧概括了英国历史上百余年间的动乱,塑造了一系列正、反面君主形象,反映了莎士比亚反对封建割据,拥护中央集权,谴责暴君暴政,要求开明君主进行自上而下改革,建立和谐社会关系的人文主义政治与道德理想。10部喜剧《错误的喜剧》、《驯悍记》、《维洛那二绅士》、《爱的徒劳》、《仲夏夜之梦》、《威尼斯商人》、《 温莎的风流娘儿们》、《无事生非》、《皆大欢喜》和《第十二夜》大都以爱情、友谊、婚姻为主题,主人公多是一些具有人文主义智慧与美德的青年男女,通过他们争取自由、幸福的斗争,歌颂进步、美好的新人新风,同时也温和地揭露和嘲讽旧事物的衰朽和丑恶,如禁欲主义的虚矫、清教徒的伪善和高利贷者的贪鄙等。莎士比亚这一时期戏剧创作的基本情调是乐观、明朗的,充满着以人文主义理想解决社会矛盾的信心,以致写在这一时期的悲剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中,也洋溢着喜剧气氛。尽管主人公殉情而死,但爱的理想战胜死亡,换来了封建世仇的和解。然而,这一时期较后的成熟喜剧《威尼斯商人》中,又带有忧郁色彩和悲剧因素,在鼓吹仁爱、友谊和真诚爱情的同时,反映了基督教社会中弱肉强食的阶级压迫、种族歧视问题,说明作者已逐渐意识到理想与现实之间存在着难以解决的矛盾。 第二时期(1601~1607)以悲剧为主,写了3部罗马剧、5部悲剧和3部“阴暗的喜剧”或“问题剧”。罗马剧《尤利乌斯·凯撒》、《安东尼和克莉奥佩特拉》和《科里奥拉努斯》是取材于普卢塔克《希腊罗马英雄传》的历史剧。四大悲剧《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》、《麦克白》和悲剧《雅典的泰门》标志着作者对时代、人生的深入思考,着力塑造了这样一些新时代的悲剧主人公:他们从中世纪的禁锢和蒙昧中醒来,在近代黎明照耀下,雄心勃勃地想要发展或完善自己,但又不能克服时代和自身的局限,终于在同环境和内心敌对势力的力量悬殊斗争中,遭到不可避免的失败和牺牲。哈姆雷特为报父仇而发现“整个时代脱榫”了,决定担起“重整乾坤”的责任,结果是空怀大志,无力回天。奥赛罗正直淳朴,相信人而又嫉恶如仇,在奸人摆布下杀妻自戕,为追求至善至美反遭恶报。李尔王在权势给他带来的尊荣、自豪、自信中迷失本性,丧失理智,幻想以让权分国来证明自己不当国王而做一个普通人,也能同样或更加伟大,因而经受了一番痛苦的磨难。麦克白本是有功的英雄,性格中有善和美的一面,只因王位的诱惑和野心的驱使,沦为“从血腥到血腥”、懊悔无及的罪人。这些人物的悲剧,深刻地揭示了在资本原始积累时期已开始出现的种种社会罪恶和资产阶级的利己主义,表现了人文主义理想与残酷现实之间矛盾的不可调和,具有高度的概括意义。由于这一时期剧作思想深度和现实主义深度的增强,使《特洛伊罗斯与克瑞西达》、《终成眷属》和《一报还一报》等“喜剧”也显露出阴暗的一面,笼罩着背信弃义、尔虞我诈的罪恶阴影,因而被称为“问题剧”或“阴暗的喜剧”。 第三时期(1608~1613)主要作品是4部悲喜剧或传奇剧《泰尔亲王里克里斯》、《辛白林》、《冬天的故事》、《暴风雨》。这些作品多写失散、团聚、诬陷、昭雪。尽管仍然坚持人文主义理想,对黑暗现实有所揭露,但矛盾的解决主要靠魔法、幻想、机缘巧合和偶然事件,并以宣扬宽恕、容忍、妥协、和解告终。 莎士比亚还与弗莱彻合作写了历史剧《亨利八世》和传奇剧《两位贵亲》,后者近年来被有的莎士比亚戏剧集收入。 莎士比亚的戏剧大都取材于旧有剧本、小说、编年史或民间传说,但在改写中注入了自已的思想,给旧题材赋予新颖、丰富、深刻的内容。在艺术表现上,他继承古代希腊罗马、中世纪英国和文艺复兴时期欧洲戏剧的三大传统并加以发展,从内容到形式进行了创造性革新。他的戏剧不受三一律束缚,突破悲剧、喜剧界限,努力反映生活的本来面目,深入探索人物内心奥秘,从而能够塑造出众多性格复杂多样、形象真实生动的人物典型,描绘了广阔的、五光十色的社会生活图景,并以其博大、深刻、富于诗意和哲理著称。 莎士比亚的戏剧是为当时英国的舞台和观众写作的大众化的戏剧。因而,它的悲喜交融、雅俗共赏以及时空自由、极力调动观众想象来弥补舞台的简陋等特点,曾在18世纪遭到以伏尔泰为代表的古典主义者的指摘,并在演出时被任意删改。莎剧的真正价值,直到19世纪初,在柯尔律治和哈兹里特等批评家的阐发下,才开始为人们所认识。然而当时的莎剧演出仍常被纳入5幕结构剧的模式。19世纪末,W.波埃尔和H.格兰威尔-巴克强烈反对当时莎剧演出的壮观传统,提倡按伊丽莎白时代剧场不用布景的方式演出,以恢复其固有特点。
  • 白鲸

    作者:麦尔维尔,Melville, H.

    《白鲸》讲述了捕鲸船“裴廓德”号船长亚哈,在一次捕鲸过程中,被凶残聪明的白鲸莫比一迪克咬掉了一条腿,因此他满怀复仇之念,一心想追捕这条白鲸,竞至失去理性,变成一个独断独行的偏热症狂。他的船几乎兜遍了全世界,经历辗转,终于与莫比一迪克遭遇。经过三天追踪,他用鱼叉击中自鲸,但船被白鲸撞破,亚哈被鱼叉上的绳子缠住,带人海中。全船人落海,只有水手以实玛利(《圣经》中人名,意为被遗弃的人)一人得救,来向人们讲述这个故事。
  • 法国童话精选

    作者:贝洛 等

    《法国童话精选》一书中有选择地收入了十七世纪到二十世纪的优秀童话共十六篇,他们分别出自贝洛、多努瓦夫人、博蒙夫人、德·塞居尔夫人和皮埃尔·格里帕里等五位童话大师之手。这些童话赞美了人民正直、勤劳、善良、机智和勇敢的优秀品质,反映了他们的美好理想和对幸福生活的憧憬。 真诚地希望《法国童话精选》这本书能受到广大青少年读者的喜爱,能使小读者们从中得到启迪,也希望它能给成人读者带来阅读的乐趣和更深沉的思索。
  • 浮现

    作者:[加拿大]玛格丽特·阿特伍德

    年轻的女画家和她的情人及另两位朋友一道,回到自己童年生活过的偏僻的魁北克山庄,本是想调查一下父亲神秘的失踪。短短的几天乡村生活,却勾起她许多幼年的回忆,更令她意识到这次回家不仅仅是从城市到乡村的转变,更多的是从一个时代到另一个时代的回归。在这野性四伏的荒凉角落,她感受到自然野性的魅力,意识到自己真正寻找的是什么,最终作出了未来生活之路的选择。
  • 俄罗斯白银时代诗选

    作者:顾蕴璞(编选)

    诗是语言艺术中的最高艺术,诗是一国民族精神的喷涌,诗艺海中最爱推陈出新的浪花.俄罗斯的诗歌同中国、英国、法国等国的诗歌享有同样的美誉.而俄罗斯白银时代的诗歌更是众星争妍,交相辉映.本书将这一时期主要诗人按流派汾九类编入,全面展示了俄罗斯“白银时代”诗歌的面貌.
  • 阿尔特米奥·克罗斯之死

    作者:卡洛斯·富恩特斯

    这是当代墨西哥著名作家卡洛斯·富恩特斯的代表作。小说描写一个墨西哥新闻界的巨头克罗斯临死时在病床上回忆自己的一生。作者采用三种不同的人称来叙述故事,将克罗斯从一个孤儿到革命军队的军官,最后成为新闻界巨富的经历多角度地呈现在读者面前,反映了1910年革命中以及革命后的墨西哥的现实。
  • Great Expectations

    作者:Charles Dickens

    狄更斯(1812~1870)英国小说家,一生共创作了14部长篇小说,许多中、短篇小说和杂文、游记、戏剧、小品。 《远大前程》(又名《孤星血泪》)是狄更斯最成熟的作品之一,是他比较晚期的作品。狄更斯经历了丰富的人间生活后,对人,对周围环境,对自己的生活经历都有了深刻的认识,而所有他成熟的思想认识都汇总在《远大前程》一书中。 Book Description An unknown benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. His expectations prove to be unfounded however, and he must return home penniless. Amazon.com Dickens considered Great Expectations one of his "little pieces," and indeed, it is slim compared to such weighty novels as David Copperfield or Nicholas Nickleby. But what this cautionary tale of a young man raised high above his station by a mysterious benefactor lacks in length, it more than makes up for in its remarkable characters and compelling story. The novel begins with young orphaned Philip Pirrip--Pip--running afoul of an escaped convict in a cemetery. This terrifying personage bullies Pip into stealing food and a file for him, threatening that if he tells a soul "your heart and your liver shall be tore out, roasted and ate." The boy does as he's asked, but the convict is captured anyway, and transported to the penal colonies in Australia. Having started his novel in a cemetery, Dickens then ups the stakes and introduces his hero into the decaying household of Miss Havisham, a wealthy, half-mad woman who was jilted on her wedding day many years before and has never recovered. Pip is brought there to play with Miss Havisham's ward, Estella, a little girl who delights in tormenting Pip about his rough hands and future as a blacksmith's apprentice. I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before; but I began to consider them a very indifferent pair. Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. It is an infection that Pip never quite recovers from; as he spends more time with Miss Havisham and the tantalizing Estella, he becomes more and more discontented with his guardian, the kindhearted blacksmith, Joe, and his childhood friend Biddy. When, after several years, Pip becomes the heir of an unknown benefactor, he leaps at the chance to leave his home and friends behind to go to London and become a gentleman. But having expectations, as Pip soon learns, is a two-edged sword, and nothing is as he thought it would be. Like that other "little piece," A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations is different from the usual Dickensian fare: the story is dark, almost surreal at times, and you'll find few of the author's patented comic characters and no comic set pieces. And yet this is arguably the most compelling of Dickens's novels for, unlike David Copperfield or Martin Chuzzlewit, the reader can never be sure that things will work out for Pip. Even Dickens apparently had his doubts--he wrote two endings for this novel.  --Alix Wilber The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature Novel by Charles Dickens, first published serially in All the Year Round in 1860-61 and issued in book form in 1861. The novel was one of its author's greatest critical and popular successes. The first-person narrative relates the coming-of-age of Pip (Philip Pirrip). Reared in the marshes of Kent by his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the young Pip one day helps a convict to escape. Later he is sent to live with Miss Havisham, a woman driven half-mad years earlier by her lover's departure on their wedding day. Her other ward is the orphaned Estella, whom she is teaching to torment men with her beauty. Pip, at first cautious, later falls in love with Estella, to his misfortune. When an anonymous benefactor makes it possible for Pip to go to London for an education, he credits Miss Havisham. He begins to look down on his humble roots, but nonetheless Estella spurns him again and marries instead the ill-tempered Bentley Drummle. Pip's benefactor turns out to have been Abel Magwitch, the convict he once aided, who dies awaiting trial after Pip is unable to help him a second time. Joe rescues Pip from despair and nurses him back to health. From AudioFile Great literature can pose problems for narrators. If the book is a classic, the pitfalls are that the listener has a preconceived notion of how the book should sound and, perhaps, how the characters themselves should sound. It is, thus, heartening to listen to Michael Page's narration of Dickens's tale. He sheds new light on the text and shows off his collection of personalities and voices. Page twists his English accent so that the characters have their own unique inflections, laughs and resonance. His voice is slightly nasal but full. He's exceptionally good at setting the tone of this rather wistful novel. And his marvelous diction and pacing make the story vibrant and interesting. R.I.G. About Author Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England,where his father was a naval pay clerk. When he was five the family moved to Chatham, near Rochester, another port town. He received some education at a small private school but this was curtailed when his father's fortunes declined. More significant was his childhood reading, which he evoked in a memory of his father's library: 'From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, The Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time.' When Dickens was ten the family moved to Camden Town, and this proved the beginning of a long, difficult period. (He wrote later of his coach journey, alone, to join his family at the new lodgings: 'I consumed my sandwiches in solitude and dreariness, and it rained hard all the way, and I thought life sloppier than I had expected to find it.') When he had just turned twelve Dickens was sent to work for a manufacturer of boot blacking, where for the better part of a year he labored for ten hours a day, an unhappy experience that instilled him with a sense of having been abandoned by his family: 'No advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no support from anyone that I can call to mind, so help me God!' Around the same time Dickens's father was jailed for debt in the Marshalsea Prison, where he remained for fourteen weeks. After some additional schooling, Dickens worked as a clerk in a law office and taught himself shorthand; this qualified him to begin working in 1831 as a reporter in the House of Commons, where he was known for the speed with which he took down speeches. By 1833 Dickens was publishing humorous sketches of London life in the Monthly Magazine, which were collected in book form as Sketches by 'Boz' (1836). These were followed by the publication in installments of the comic adventures that became The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837), whose unprecedented popularity made the twenty-five-year-old author a national figure. In 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth, who would bear him ten children over a period of fifteen years. Dickens's energies enabled him to lead an active family and social life, including an indulgence in elaborate amateur theatricals, while maintaining a literary productiveness of astonishing proportions. He characteristically wrote his novels for serial publication, and was himself the editor of many of the periodicals—Bentley's Miscellany, The Daily News, Household Words, All the Year Round—in which they appeared. Among his close associates were his future biographer John Forster and the younger Wilkie Collins, with whom he collaborated on fictional and dramatic works. In rapid succession he published Oliver Twist (1838), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), and Barnaby Rudge (1841), sometimes working on several novels simultaneously. Dickens's celebrity led to a tour of the United States in 1842. There he met Longfellow, Irving, Bryant, and other literary figures, and was received with an enthusiasm that was dimmed somewhat by the criticisms Dickens expressed in his American Notes (1842) and in the American chapters of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844). The appearance of A Christmas Carol in 1843 sealed his position as the most widely popular writer of his time; it became an annual tradition for him to write a story for the season, of which the most memorable were The Chimes (1844) and The Cricket on the Hearth (1845). He continued to produce novels at only a slightly diminished rate, publishing Dombey and Son in 1848 and David Copperfield in 1850; of the latter, his personal favorite among his books, he wrote to Forster: 'If I were to say half of what Copperfield makes me feel tonight how strangely, even to you, I should be turned inside out! I seem to be sending some part of myself into the Shadowy World.' From this point on his novels tended to be more elaborately constructed and harsher and less buoyant in tone than his earlier works. These late novels include Bleak House (1853), Hard Times (1854), Little Dorrit (1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1861). Our Mutual Friend, published in 1865, was his last completed novel, and perhaps the most somber and savage of them all. Dickens had separated from his wife in 1858—he had become involved a year earlier with a young actress named Ellen Ternan—and the ensuing scandal had alienated him from many of his former associates and admirers. He was weakened by years of overwork and by a near-fatal railroad disaster during the writing of Our Mutual Friend. Nevertheless he embarked on a series of public readings, including a return visit to America in 1867, which further eroded his health. A final work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a crime novel much influenced by Wilkie Collins, was left unfinished upon his death on June 9,1870, at the age of 58. Book Dimension : length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6 点击链接进入中文版: 远大前程