基本介紹
內容簡介
《霧都孤兒》：體現弱者戰勝坎坷命運的感人讀物。
作者簡介
作者：（英國）狄更斯（Charles Dickens）
狄更斯（1812-1870），是英國現實主義文學最傑出的代表。生於小職員家庭，幼年家貧，父親因欠債入獄，全家人也一度被逼進獄中居住。狄更斯童年在一家鞋油廠當學徒，16歲在一家律師事務所當繕寫員，19歲進入報界，從此廣泛接觸社會，開始嘗試寫作。《匹克威克外傳》出版後一舉成名。他的創作大致可分為三個時期：
第一時期（1833-1842），作品基調樂觀，對社會進行溫和的諷刺和批判。重要小說有：《匹克威克外傳》（1837）、《霧都孤兒》（1838）、《尼克拉斯·尼古貝》（1839）、《老古玩店》（1841）。
第二時期（1842-1848），作品加深了對社會的批判，藝術風格日益深沉、豐富。重要小說有：《馬丁·朱什爾維特》（1844）、《聖誕故事集》（1843-1848）、《董貝父子》（1848）、《大衛·科波菲爾》（1950）。
第三時期（1850-1870），創作最繁榮時期，思想上和藝術上都達到了最高成就。重要小說有：《荒涼山莊》（1853）、《艱難時世》（1854）、《小杜麗》（1857）、《雙城記》（1859）、《遠大前程》（1861）。
狄更斯的創作以非凡的藝術概括力展示了19世紀英國社會的廣闊畫卷，反映了當時社會的真實面貌。他以高度的藝術概括和生動的細節描寫，塑造了為數眾多的社會各階層特別是下層人民的典型形象。
圖書目錄
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 l0 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
文摘
For many days Oliver remained in the Jew's room, picking the marks out of the pocket-handkerchiefs (of which a great number were brought home), and sometimes taking part in the game already described, which the two boys and the Jew played regularly every morning. At length he began to languish for the fresh air, and took many occasions of earnestly entreating the old gentleman to allow him to go out to work with his two companions.
Oliver was rendered the more anxious to be actively employed, by what he had seen of the stern morality of the old gentleman's character. Whenever the Dodger or Charley Bates came home at night empty-handed, he would expatiate with great vehemence on the misery of idle and lazy habits, and would enforce upon them the necessity of an active life by sending them supperless to bed. On one occasion, indeed, he even went so far as to knock them both down a flight of stairs; but this was carrying out his virtuous precepts to an unusual extent.
At length one morning Oliver obtained the permission he had so eagerly sought. There had been no handkerchiefs to work upon for two or three days, and the dinners had been rather meagre. Perhaps these were the reasons for the old gentleman's giving his assent; but, whether they were or
no, he told Oliver he might go, and placed him under the joint guardianship of Charley Bates and his friend the Dodger.
The three boys sallied out; the Dodger with his coatsleeves tucked up, and his hat cocked, as usual; Master Bates sauntering along with his hands in his pockets; and Oliver between them, wondering where they were going, and what branch of manufacture he would be instructed in first.
序言
一部文學史是人類從童真走向成熟的發展史，是一個個文學大師用如椽巨筆記載的人類的心靈史，也是承載人類良知與情感反思的思想史。閱讀這些傳世的文學名著就是在閱讀最鮮活生動的歷史，就是在與大師們做跨越時空的思想交流與情感交流，它會使一代代的讀者獲得心靈的滋養與巨大的審美滿足。
中國對外翻譯出版公司以中外語言學習和中外文化交流為自己的出版方向，向廣大讀者提供既能提升語言能力，又能滋養心靈的精神大餐是我們的一貫宗旨。儘管隨著網路技術和數字出版的發展，讀者獲得這些作品的途徑更加便捷，但是，一本本裝幀精關、墨香四溢的圖書仍是讀書人的最愛。
“熟讀唐詩三百首，不會做詩也會吟”，漢語學習如此，外語學習尤其如此。要想徹底學好一種語言，必須有大量的閱讀。這不僅可以熟能生巧地掌握其語言技能，也可了解一種語言所承載的獨特文化。“中譯經典文庫?世界文學名著（英語原著版）”便是這樣一套必將使讀者受益終生的讀物。
