Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Richard Maxwell teaches in the Comparative Literature & English departments at Yale.
Dickens's historical novel of the French Revolution, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.
在那个最令人恐惧、堕落、压抑的动荡年代,在两座充满断头台、死囚犯、流血、告密的城市中,人性并没有因此而泯灭。仍有为了爱而宽容一切的人,因为爱而无私奉献的人,更有用生命来诠释爱情的人。 〈双城记〉围绕法国大革命前后莫奈特医生一家、德法热太太、艾弗雷蒙德三个家庭...
评分 评分 评分查尔斯·狄更斯(Charles Dickens)生于1812年,卒于1870年。《双城记》(A Tale of Two Cities)发表于1859年,是他创作成熟时期的代表作之一。 《双城记》在问世之甫即遭到种种奚落。有传闻说狄更斯在阅读《星期六评论》上对《双城记》的抨击之后,竟然昏迷不醒,卧病数月。...
评分1789年7月14日,这一天巴士底狱被攻占。史称巴士底日,现为法国国庆日。 巴士底狱(Bastille)是一座曾经位于法国巴黎市中心的坚固监狱,高30米,围墙很厚,共有8个塔楼,上面放有大炮,监狱内设一军火库。它建造于12世纪,当时是一座军事城堡,目的是防御百年战争英国人的进...
"It is far,far brtter thing that I do,than I have ever done;it is a far,better rest that I go to,that I have ever known."
评分"It is far,far brtter thing that I do,than I have ever done;it is a far,better rest that I go to,that I have ever known."
评分"It is far,far brtter thing that I do,than I have ever done;it is a far,better rest that I go to,that I have ever known."
评分"It is far,far brtter thing that I do,than I have ever done;it is a far,better rest that I go to,that I have ever known."
评分"It is far,far brtter thing that I do,than I have ever done;it is a far,better rest that I go to,that I have ever known."
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