Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea. At the age of twelve, Charles Dickens experienced what was the key event of his life. His father was put into prison, young Charles was taken out of school and put to work in a warehouse in London. At the age of fifteen Dickens began working as an office boy for a law firm. By 1828 he became a reporter for the lay courts of Doctors' Common. By the age of twenty, Dickens was one of the best Parliamentary reporters in England. During this same period Dickens' interest began to change from journalism to literature. And he published a large amount of works. He died suddenly in 1870 from stroke at the age of fifty-eight.
查尔斯·狄更斯生于英国朴次茅斯一个贫苦家庭。是十九世纪英国最著名的现实议作家,一生写有十多部长篇小说,他写作《雾都孤儿》时,年仅二十五岁。这部小说曾被改编、拍摄成多种电影、电视片,放映和播映,影响广泛、深远。他一生写有十多部长篇小说,被称为杰出的语言大师。他擅长运用讽刺、幽默和夸张的手法,他笔下的人物风貌和语言风格,都富有浓厚的浪漫主义特色。《雾都孤儿》(即《奥立弗·退斯特》)是狄更斯的一部伟大的社会小说,在世界文学史上占有重要的位置。
内容介绍:一个不知来历的年轻孕妇昏倒在街上,人们把她送进了贫民收容院。第二天,她生下一个男孩后死去,这个孤儿被取名奥立弗·退斯特。十年后奥立弗成了棺材店的学徒。他不堪虐待,逃到雾都伦敦,不幸落入贼帮手中。小小的孤儿在逆境中挣扎,幸而他由于本性善良而得到了善良的人原帮助,他一次次化险为夷,终于能和爱他的亲人团聚,他神秘的出身也真相大白。
表达的感情和揭露的问题:<雾都孤儿》真实地再现了19世纪初期伦敦社会底层人民的生活。当时的英国,工业革命蓬勃进行,经济飞速发展,但是在经济繁荣的背后,仍然存在大量严重的社会问题、比如城市和农村贫民问题、失业者问题等等。《雾都孤儿》就真实地反映了当时英国社会中存在的日益严重的贫民问题,整部小说充满了强烈的社会批判精神。这种批判通过奥利弗是这部小说中善良、勇敢、坚强、乖巧的主人公的故事深刻的展现在人们面前。作者狄更斯通过小说告诉人们要分清善恶,并且希望人们要懂得爱,懂得去爱别人,整部小说自始至终都洋溢着爱的力量。
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一个孤儿名叫奥立弗·退斯特,不堪棺材店老板虐待,逃到雾都伦敦,不幸落入贼帮手中。小小的孤儿在逆境中挣扎,幸而他由于本性善良而得到了善良的人原帮助,他一次次化险为夷,终于能和爱他的亲人团聚,知道了他神秘出身的真相。
作者 查尔斯·狄更斯