文档介绍：A Tale of Two Cities
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About the author
Charles Dickens
Born Feb. 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Eng.
-Died June 9, 1870, Gad's Hill, near Chatham, Kent
British novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. The defining moment of Dickens's life occurred when he was 12 years old. With his father in debtors' prison, he was withdrawn from school and forced to work in a factory. This deeply affected the sensitive boy. Though he returned to school at 13, his formal education ended at 15.
As a young man, he worked as a reporter. His fiction career began with short pieces reprinted as Sketches by “Boz”(1836). He exhibited a great ability to spin a story in an entertaining manner and this quality, combined with the serialization of ic novel The Pickwick Papers (1837), made him the most popular English author of his time.
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The serialization of such works as Oliver Twist (1838) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) followed. After a trip to America, he wrote A Christmas Carol (1843) in a few weeks. With Dombey and Son (1848), his novels began to express a heightened uneasiness about the evils of Victorian industrial society, which intensified in the semiautobiographical David Copperfield (1850), as well as in Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), Great Expectations (1861), and others.
半自传
加强
老古玩店
圣诞颂歌
荒凉山庄
小杜丽
远大前程
雾都孤儿
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) appeared in the period when he achieved great popularity for his public readings. Dickens's works are characterized by an encyclopedic knowledge of London, pathos, a vein of the macabre, a pervasive spirit of benevolence and geniality, inexhaustible powers of character creation, an acute ear for characteristic speech, and a highly individual and inventive prose style.
恐怖的
弥漫的
仁慈
A Tale of Two Cities occupies a central place in the canon of Charles Dickens's works. This novel of the French Revolution was originally serialized in the author's own periodical All the Year Round. Week