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狄更斯作品,小说以雾都伦敦为背景,讲述一个孤儿悲惨的身世及遭遇。本书为英文原著。
内容简介
主人公奥利佛是个孤儿,从小在济贫院长大,不知父母是谁。他在济贫院中受了九年的折磨后被送到一个承办丧事的店里当学徒,在那里受到虐待。他忍无可忍,独自逃往伦敦,不幸刚到便被骗误入贼窟,这是一个专事盗窃抢劫的团伙,为首的是老犹太人费金,除了少数头目外,都是些被引入邪路的少年儿童。费金一伙用威胁、利诱、灌输等手段,要把奥利佛变成他们的作案工具。奥利佛历尽无数辛酸,几经波折,最终被他父亲生前的朋友从贼窟中救出,找到了亲人,得到了遗产,过上了幸福的生活。
作者简介
作者狄更斯,继莎士比亚之后对于世界文学影响最大的作家之一。其高超、富有节奏感的叙事方式,生动记录社会现实(英国维多利亚时代)的能力以及作品中积极倡导的人道主义精神,都是狄更斯的标志性特色。代表作包括《匹克威克外传》(1837)、《雾都孤儿》(又名《奥列弗·退斯特》1838)、《老古玩店》(1841)、《马丁·瞿述伟》(1844)、《大卫·科波菲尔》(1850)、《艰难时世》(1854)、《双城记》(1859)、《远大前程》(1861)等。
章节目录
版权信息
出版前言
PREFACE
作家与作品
Chapter 1 Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born; and of the circumstances attending his birth
Chapter 2 Treats of Oliver Twist’s growth, education, and board
Chapter 3 Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a place, which would not have been a sinecure
Chapter 4 Oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life
Chapter 5 Oliver mingles with new associates. Going to a funeral for the first time, he forms an unfavourable notion of his master’s business
Chapter 6 Oliver, being goaded by the taunts of Noah, rouses into action and rather astonishes him
Chapter 7 Oliver continues refractory
Chapter 8 Oliver walks to London. He encounters on the road, a strange sort of young gentleman
Chapter 9 Containing further particulars concerning the pleasant old gentleman and his hopeful pupils
Chapter 10 Oliver becomes better acquainted with the characters of his new associates; and purchases experience at a high price. Being a short but very important chapter in this history
Chapter 11 Treats of Mr. Fang, the police magistrate; and furnishes a slight specimen of his mode of administering justice
Chapter 12 In which Oliver is taken better care of than he ever was before. And in which the narrative reverts to the merry old gentleman and his youthful friends
Chapter 13 Some new acquaintances are introduced to the intelligent reader; connected with whom various pleasant matters are related appertaining to this history
Chapter 14 Comprising further particulars of Oliver’s stay at Mr. Brownlow’s, with the remarkable prediction which one Mr. Grimwig uttered concerning him when he went out on an errand
Chapter 15 Showing how very fond of Oliver Twist the merry old Jew and Miss Nancy were
Chapter 16 Relates what became of Oliver Twist, after he had been claimed by Nancy
Chapter 17 Oliver’s destiny, continuing unpropitious, brings a great man to London to injure his reputation
Chapter 18 How Oliver passed his time in the improving society of his reputable friends
Chapter 19 In which a notable plan is discussed and determined on
Chapter 20 Wherein Oliver is delivered over to Mr. William Sikes
Chapter 21 The expedition
Chapter 22 The burglary
Chapter 23 Which contains the substance of a pleasant conversation between Mr. Bumble and a lady; and shows that even a beadle may be susceptible on some points
Chapter 24 Treats of a very poor subject. But is a short one; and may be found of some importance in this history
Chapter 25 Wherein this history refers to Mr. Fagin and company
Chapter 26 In which a mysterious character appears upon the scene; and many things, inseparable from this history, are done and performed
Chapter 27 Atones for the unpoliteness of a former chapter; which deserted a lady most unceremoniously
Chapter 28 Looks after Oliver, and proceeds with his adventures
Chapter 29 Has an introductory account of the inmates of the house to which Oliver resorted
Chapter 30 Relates what Oliver’s new visitors thought of him
Chapter 31 Involves a critical position
Chapter 32 Of the happy life Oliver began to lead with his kind friends
Chapter 33 Wherein the happiness of Oliver and his friends experiences a sudden check
Chapter 34 Contains some introductory particulars relative to a young gentleman who now arrives upon the scene; and a new adventure which happened to Oliver
Chapter 35 Containing the unsatisfactory result of Oliver’s adventure; and a conversation of some importance between Harry Maylie and Rose
Chapter 36 Is a very short one, and may appear of no great importance in its place. But it should be read, notwithstanding, as a sequel to the last, and a key to one that will follow when its time arrives
Chapter 37 In which the reader may perceive a contrast, not uncommon in matrimonial cases
Chapter 38 Containing an account of what passed between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Monks, at their nocturnal interview
Chapter 39 Introduces some respectable characters with whom the reader is already acquainted, and shows how Monks and the Jew laid their worthy heads together
Chapter 40 A strange interview, which is a sequel to the last chapter
Chapter 41 Containing fresh discoveries, and showing that surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone
Chapter 42 An old acquaintance of Oliver’s, exhibiting decided marks of genius, becomes a public character in the metropolis
Chapter 43 Wherein is shown how the Artful Dodger got into trouble
Chapter 44 The time arrives for Nancy to redeem her pledge to Rose Maylie. She fails
Chapter 45 Noah Claypole is employed by Fagin on a secret mission
Chapter 46 The appointment kept
Chapter 47 Fatal consequences
Chapter 48 The flight of Sikes
Chapter 49 Monks and Mr. Brownlow at length meet. Their conversation, and the intelligence that interrupts it
Chapter 50 The pursuit and escape
Chapter 51 Affording an explanation of more mysteries than one, and comprehending a proposal of marriage, with no word of settlement or pin-money
Chapter 52 The Jew’s last night alive
Chapter 53 And last
雾都孤儿(英文原著版)是2010年由中译出版社出版,作者[英] 查尔斯·狄更斯。
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