
Little Dorrit(小杜丽)
作品简介
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that “intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens’s other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.”
狄更斯(Charles Dickens, 1812~1870):1812年生于英国的朴次茅斯。父亲过着没有节制的生活,负债累累。年幼的狄更斯被迫被送进一家皮鞋油店当学徒,饱尝了艰辛。狄更斯16岁时,父亲因债务被关进监狱。从此,他们的生活更为悲惨。工业革命一方面带来了19世纪前期英国大都市的繁荣,另一方面又带来了庶民社会的极端贫困和对童工的残酷剥削。尖锐的社会矛盾和不公正的社会制度使狄更斯决心改变自己的生活。15岁时,狄更斯在一家律师事务所当抄写员并学习速记,此后,又在报社任新闻记者。在《记事晨报》任记者时,狄更斯开始发表一些具有讽刺和幽默内容的短剧,主要反映伦敦的生活,逐渐有了名气。他了解城市底层人民的生活和风土人情,这些都体现在他热情洋溢的笔端。此后,他在不同的杂志社任编辑、主编和发行人,其间发表了几十部长篇和短篇小说,主要作品有《雾都孤儿》、《圣诞颂歌》、《大卫·科波菲尔》和《远大前程》等。
作品目录
Preface
Part 1
Chapter 1Sun and Shadow
Chapter 2Fellow Travellers
Chapter 3Home
Chapter 4Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream
Chapter 5Family Affairs
Chapter 6The Father of the Marshalsea
Chapter 7The Child of the Marshalsea
Chapter 8The Lock
Chapter 9Little Mother
Chapter 10Containing the whole Science of Government
Chapter 11Let Loose
Chapter 12Bleeding Heart Yard
Chapter 13Patriarchal
Chapter 14Little Dorrit's Party
Chapter 15Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream
Chapter 16Nobody's Weakness
Chapter 17Nobody's Rival
Chapter 18Little Dorrit's Lover
Chapter 19The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations
Chapter 20Moving in Society
Chapter 21Mr Merdle's Complaint
Chapter 22APuzzle
Chapter 23Machinery in Motion
Chapter 24Fortune-Telling
Chapter 25Conspirators and Others
Chapter 26Nobody's State of Mind
Chapter 27Five-and-Twenty
Chapter 28Nobody's Disappearance
Chapter 29Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming
Chapter 30The Word of a Gentleman
Chapter 31Spirit
Chapter 32More Fortune-Telling
Chapter 33Mrs Merdle's Complaint
Chapter 34AShoal of Barnacles
Chapter 35What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit's Hand
Chapter 36The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan
Part 2
Chapter 1Fellow Travellers
Chapter 2Mrs General
Chapter 3Onthe Road
Chapter 4ALetter from Little Dorrit
Chapter 5Something Wrong Somewhere
Chapter 6Something Right Somewhere
Chapter 7Mostly, Prunes and Prism
Chapter 8The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that 'It Never Does'
Chapter 9Appearance and Disappearance
Chapter 10The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken
Chapter 11ALetter from Little Dorrit
Chapter 12In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden
Chapter 13The Progress of an Epidemic
Chapter 14Taking Advice
Chapter 15No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Personsshould not bejoined together
Chapter 16Getting on
Chapter 17Missing
Chapter 18ACastle in the Air
Chapter 19The Storming of the Castle in the Air
Chapter 20Introduces the next
Chapter 21The History of a Self-Tormentor
Chapter 22Who passes by this Road so late?
Chapter 23Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise,respecting herDreams
Chapter 24The Evening of a Long Day
Chapter 25The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office
Chapter 26Reaping the Whirlwind
Chapter 27The Pupil of the Marshalsea
Chapter 28An Appearance in the Marshalsea
Chapter 29APlea in the Marshalsea
Chapter 30Closing in
Chapter 31Closed
Chapter 32Going
Chapter 33Going!
Chapter 34Gone