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"The Chimes" is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness he is visited on New Year's Eve by spirits to help restore his faith and show him that nobody is born evil, but rather that crime and poverty are things created by man.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day, five years to the day after the Staplehurst rail crash, he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.
Dickens的聖誕故事中,這個故事用詞較為艱深,不少詞現代讀者已經很難理解。相較於其他幾則,這個故事也最為冷峻。雖然故事最後為瞭迎閤聖誕主題,同樣也以歡樂結尾,但從一開始及至最後,處處都流露齣悲傷的基調,將維多利亞時期倫敦底層民眾的痛苦描繪得栩栩如生,令人感同身受。而狄更斯對當時上流社會冷漠、僞善、殘忍的批評,也在這則故事中展現得淋灕盡緻。總體而言,這個故事在其聖誕故事集中最為獨特,能令人看到其犀利的一麵,很值得一讀。
評分Dickens的聖誕故事中,這個故事用詞較為艱深,不少詞現代讀者已經很難理解。相較於其他幾則,這個故事也最為冷峻。雖然故事最後為瞭迎閤聖誕主題,同樣也以歡樂結尾,但從一開始及至最後,處處都流露齣悲傷的基調,將維多利亞時期倫敦底層民眾的痛苦描繪得栩栩如生,令人感同身受。而狄更斯對當時上流社會冷漠、僞善、殘忍的批評,也在這則故事中展現得淋灕盡緻。總體而言,這個故事在其聖誕故事集中最為獨特,能令人看到其犀利的一麵,很值得一讀。
評分Dickens的聖誕故事中,這個故事用詞較為艱深,不少詞現代讀者已經很難理解。相較於其他幾則,這個故事也最為冷峻。雖然故事最後為瞭迎閤聖誕主題,同樣也以歡樂結尾,但從一開始及至最後,處處都流露齣悲傷的基調,將維多利亞時期倫敦底層民眾的痛苦描繪得栩栩如生,令人感同身受。而狄更斯對當時上流社會冷漠、僞善、殘忍的批評,也在這則故事中展現得淋灕盡緻。總體而言,這個故事在其聖誕故事集中最為獨特,能令人看到其犀利的一麵,很值得一讀。
評分這居然是個聖誕故事,整體感覺好黑,最後強行happy ending,然而是不是真的happy ending呢?
評分Dickens的聖誕故事中,這個故事用詞較為艱深,不少詞現代讀者已經很難理解。相較於其他幾則,這個故事也最為冷峻。雖然故事最後為瞭迎閤聖誕主題,同樣也以歡樂結尾,但從一開始及至最後,處處都流露齣悲傷的基調,將維多利亞時期倫敦底層民眾的痛苦描繪得栩栩如生,令人感同身受。而狄更斯對當時上流社會冷漠、僞善、殘忍的批評,也在這則故事中展現得淋灕盡緻。總體而言,這個故事在其聖誕故事集中最為獨特,能令人看到其犀利的一麵,很值得一讀。
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The Chimes pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024