⑴ 求Charles Dickens所有作品中英文名
作品列表
转换为繁体中文
双城记
双城记 英文版 A Tale of Two Cities
圣诞颂歌 英文版 A Christmas Carol
大卫.科波菲尔
大卫.科波菲尔 英文版 David Copperfield
艰难时世 英文版 Hard Times
荒凉山庄 英文版 Bleak House
董贝父子
董贝父子 英文版 Dombey and Son
远大前程
远大前程 英文版 Great Expectations
雾都孤儿
雾都孤儿 英文版 Oliver Twist
作者简介
查尔斯·狄更斯 英国小说家,出生于海军小职员家庭,10岁时全家被迫迁入负债者监狱,11岁就承担起繁重的家务劳动。曾在皮鞋作坊当学徒,16岁时在律师事务所当缮写员,后担任报社采访记者。他只上过几年学,全靠刻苦自学和艰辛劳动成为知名作家。 他生活在英国由半封建社会向工业资本主义社会的过渡时期。其作品广泛而深刻地描写这时期社会生活的各个方面,鲜明而生动地刻画了各阶层的代表人物形象,并从人道主义出发对各种丑恶的社会现象及其代表人物进行揭露批判,对劳动人民的苦难及其反抗斗争给以同情和支持。
狄更斯一生共创作了14部长篇小说,许多中、短篇小说和杂文、游记、戏剧、小品。其中最著名的作品是描写劳资矛盾的长篇代表作《艰难时代》(1854)和描写1789年法国革命的另一篇代表作《双城记》(1859)。前者展示了工业资本家对工人的残酷剥削和压迫,描写了工人阶级的团结斗争,并批判了为资本家剥削辩护的自由竞争原则和功利主义学说。后者以法国贵族的荒淫残暴、人民群众的重重苦难和法国大革命的历史威力,来影射当时的英国社会现实,预示这场“可怕的大火”也将在法国重演。其他作品有《奥列佛·特维斯特》(又译《雾都孤儿》1838)、《老古玩店》(1841),《董贝父子》(1848),《大卫·科波菲尔》(1850)和《远大前程》(1861),等等。
狄更斯是19世纪英国现实主义文学的主要代表。艺术上以妙趣横生的幽默、细致入微的心理分析,以及现实主义描写与浪漫主义气氛的有机结合著称。马克思把他和萨克雷等称誉为英国的“一批杰出的小说家”。
查尔斯·狄更斯 (又名: Charles Dickens )
职业 : 原著
作品
马丁·翟述伟 (又名: Martin Chuzzlewit) (本作品中 : 原著)
原著: 查尔斯·狄更斯
简介: 这部改编自狄更斯原著的剧集,演员阵容强劲,充满了善良、邪恶及逗趣的人物,以极其深入的手法呈现富裕老人的家族成员,为了继续庞大遗产无所不用其极的丑态。愤世嫉俗的老人马丁·朱述尔维特时日无多了,但继承他巨额遗产的将会是谁呢?他唯一信任的人就 ...
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艰难时世 (又名: Hard Times) (本作品中 : 原著)
原著: 查尔斯·狄更斯
简介: 大文豪查尔斯·狄更斯不朽之作 银行家邦德比是当时社会的象征人物:白手起家、自命不凡的实业巨子,负责侍候他的是出身良好的寡妇史巴斯特太太。当地的议员兼校长格拉德格林以“实事求是,脚踏实地”这套经济制度为教务教育他的子女-路易莎和汤姆。
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远大前程 (又名: Great Expectations,孤星血泪) (本作品中 : 原著)
原著: 查尔斯·狄更斯
简介: 故事描述一名女子如何因遇人不淑而矢志对天下男人展开报复;一名年轻人如何从铁匠学徒摇身一变成为伦敦的绅士,以及对一名冷漠女子的痴心爱恋。《远大前程》是一个由冲突和波澜交织而成的故事,皮普富裕的助养人、艾丝黛拉的父亲、哈维森小姐的未婚夫等等 ...
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我们共同的朋友 (又名: Our Mutual Friend) (本作品中 : 原著)
原著: 查尔斯·狄更斯
简介: 潺潺河流静静流过维多利亚时期的伦敦,暗涌的河水携带着一个激情的犯罪故事。在泰晤士河岸旁,贫穷但能干的丽西,帮助他的父亲从事河流拾荒的工作。但父女两发现,他们所寻获的一具尸体将带领他们前往一个原本遥不可及的世界,这是个虚浮,注重表面的世界 ...
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大卫科波菲尔 (又名: David Copperfield) (本作品中 : 原著)
原著: 查尔斯·狄更斯
简介: “与许多慈爱的父母一样,我心中也有个最喜爱的孩子。他叫大卫·科波菲尔” ——查尔斯·狄更斯 世界著名文学《大卫·科波菲尔》首次拍成剧集,由多位著名巨星精心演绎,故事描述一位早年丧父的小男孩,因母亲的性格比较柔弱怕事,童 ...
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苦海孤雏 (又名: 雾都孤儿,Oliver Twist) (本作品中 : 原著)
原著: 查尔斯·狄更斯
简介: 改编自大文豪狄更斯著名同名小说。 故事讲述孤儿奥利华因不能忍受贫院的恶劣环境及不人道待遇偷走出来,逃到伦敦街头后遇上一扒手,其后更被臭名远扬的恶棍拐去,被迫加入“扒手党”以偷窃为生。“扒手党”的偷窃活动,以及那些对奥利华母亲遗物虎 ...
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双城记 (又名: A Tale of Two Cities) (本作品中 : 原著)
导演: Michael E. Briant 原著: 查尔斯·狄更斯 演员: Paul Shelley Harry Fielder Vivien Merchant Ralph Michael
简介: “我现在做的远比我所做过的一切都美好。我将获得的休息远比我所知的一切都甜蜜。” 卡顿是挥霍无度,生活放荡的富家子弟,他是害群之马,坠落天使,他在断头台上的临终遗言令他在名言集留一席位。这角色今日仍跟这部名著当年初出版时一样震撼人 .
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雾都孤儿 (又名: Oliver Twist) (本作品中 : 原著)
导演: 罗曼·波兰斯基 演员: Barney Clark Jeremy Swift Ian McNeice Richard Durden Timothy Bateson
简介: 《雾都孤儿》由奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖得主罗纳德·哈伍德根据英国大文豪查尔斯·狄更斯同名经典小说改编,蜚声世界影坛大师罗曼·波兰斯基为全世界的孩子们倾力执导,奥斯卡影帝本·金斯利及英国新晋人见人爱天才小童星巴尼·克拉克联袂主演。影片由英、法、德、 ...
⑵ 求《远大前程》英文版简介 狄更斯的作品
The development of the novel story can be roughly divided into three parts. The first part describes Pip's simple childhood in the countryside.
He met a fugitive by chance.
And stole something from home to help him. Soon, Pip was invited to play in Miss Haweishamu's Sadisi.
And his heart changed. He fell in love with the beautiful but indifferent Estella and began to feel ashamed of his own origin and loved ones.
One day, Pip was suddenly funded by a person who did not want to be named. He was overjoyed to be sent to London to receive a superior ecation.
译文如下:
小说故事的发展大致可分成三个部分。第一部分记述了皮普在乡间的质朴的童年生活。一次偶然的机会他遇见了一名逃犯。
并偷了家里的东西帮助他。不久,皮普受邀到哈维沙姆小姐的萨蒂斯大院玩耍,从此内心发生变化。他爱上了美丽却冷漠的埃斯特拉,开始为自己的出身及亲人感到害臊。
一天,皮普突然受到一位不愿透露姓名的人士资助。被送到伦敦接受上等人的教育,他为此欣喜若狂。
《远大前程》又译《孤星血泪》,是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯晚年写成的长篇小说。成书于1860年至1861年之间,该小说自1860年12月到1861年8月连载于作者制作的周刊《一年四季》。
(2)远大前程英语有声小说扩展阅读:
创作背景
《远大前程》一书属于查尔斯·狄更斯的晚期作品,它写于狄更斯生活中出现危机之后。他刚与妻子凯瑟琳分手,这给他带来了巨大的痛苦。同时,他开始了与年轻的演员爱伦·特南的婚外爱情,这一段感情给他带来的痛苦多于幸福。
这一时期,由于对社会黑暗认识的进一步加深,加上年龄的增长,个人婚姻爱情生活方面的不幸,作者思想中抑郁的一面有所增强,反映在创作中,乐观的基调大大削弱。作为对社会弊端的反映和对人情世态的写照,狄更斯的叙事艺术显示出微妙的变化,狄更斯的创作处于自我疑虑增长的时期。
⑶ 紧急!!!英文版远大前程的内容简介,越详细越好
皮普生活在姐姐家里,生活艰苦,他的理想是当一名像姐夫一样的铁匠,他没有想当上等人。后来他想当上等人是因为环境的改变。狄更斯的哲学思想之一是环境对人思想的影响。不同的环境可以造就成不同的人。皮普的整个发展过程是符合一般人性理论的。这部作品并非任意写出,而是以狄更斯以前的十多部作品为基础,是他思想的总结。狄更斯把自己的人生观、哲学和道德的思想都总结到了这部创作之中。
将中文译成英语:
pip
lives
in
my
sister
home
and
hard,
his
ideal
is
the
same
as
a
blacksmith,
as
her
husband,
he
did
not
want
to
be
a
gentleman.
later,
he
wanted
to
be
a
gentleman
because
of
changes
in
the
environment.
dickens
is
one
of
the
philosophy
of
the
environment
on
human
thought.
into
a
different
environment,
can
lead
to
different
people.
pip
is
in
line
with
the
overall
development
of
the
general
theory
of
human
nature.
this
work
is
not
free
to
write,
but
in
more
than
a
dozen
previous
works
of
dickens,
based
on
a
summary
of
his
thoughts.
dickens
to
his
outlook
on
life,
philosophy
and
moral
thoughts
to
this
creation.
如果还满意给个分谢谢!
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导演:阿方索·卡隆
编剧:米奇·格雷泽、查尔斯·狄更斯
主演:伊桑·霍克、格温妮斯·帕特洛、汉克·阿扎利亚、克里斯·库珀、安妮·班克罗夫特、罗伯特·德尼罗、乔什·莫斯特尔、金·迪肯斯、内尔·坎贝尔、加布里埃尔·曼、杰雷米·詹姆斯·基斯纳尔、拉奎尔·比乌迪内、斯蒂芬·斯皮内拉、马拉·苏查雷特扎、IsabelleAnderson
类型:剧情、爱情
制片国家/地区:美国
语言:英语、法语
上映日期:1998-01-30
片长:111分钟
又名:爱情有刺、烈爱风暴、新孤星血泪、烈爱风云
根据狄更斯的小说《远大前程》改编而成。
费因是个贫苦的孤儿,在极其偶然的情况下,他进入神秘的ParadisoPerto庄园——那是州上最富有的女人丁斯默尔(AnneBancroft饰)的家,成为她和她的侄女艾丝黛拉的座上客。
许多年过去了,费因(EthanHawke饰)每周都到庄园跳舞,他一往情深地爱慕着成年后的艾丝黛拉(GwynethPaltrow饰),可艾丝黛拉绝美的脸庞下却是一颗高傲而冷酷的心:她并不爱费因,却极尽其挑逗之能事,将可怜的小伙子玩弄于股掌之中,最后她就不告而别去了国外留学。
受到沉重打击的费因终于看清自己和艾丝黛拉的距离,可就在他放弃之际,他又突然得到神秘人的赞助来到纽约,在这里他尽情施展自己的艺术才华,事业上就要闯出一片天,此时,性感尤物艾丝黛拉又在他面前出现了……
⑸ 推荐一下 对英语学习有帮助的书籍, 先说声谢谢
您可以去看看《书虫·牛津英汉双语读物》系列的图书,我以前就是看这个的,很容易就可以买到的。(以下摘自网络)
本套书具有以下特点: “绘”声“绘”色的体验。纯彩色印刷,配有英美专业朗读者朗读的CD光盘。 28本经典著作以及原创故事,诸多著作是第一次收录。 分为5个级别,从入门级到第四级,本套书每本里面均含有阅读准备、故事改编、优美译文、拓展训练、语法充电等内容,使学生在阅读的同时,可以进行相关语法知识的联系,并能根据文章内容拓宽视角,了解更多的背景知识
入门级
入门级:适合小学高年级、初一,共10本 1、《生存游戏》 2、《侠盗罗宾汉》 3、《白色巨石》 4、《红酋长的赎金》 5、《吸血鬼猎手》 6、《逆戟鲸》 7、《雾都疑案》 8、《亚瑟王传奇》 9、《亚瑟王朝里的美国人》 10、《把钱拿出来!》
第一级
第一级:300生词量,适合初一、初二学生,分上、下两册,共20本 上册(共10本) 1、《爱情与金钱》 2、《苏格兰玛丽女王》 3、《在月亮下面》 4、《潘德尔的巫师》 5、《歌剧院的幽灵》 6、《猴爪》 7、《象人》 8、《世界上最冷的地方》 9、《阿拉丁和神灯》 10、《别了,好莱坞先生》 下册(共10本) 1、《小公主》 2、《邦蒂号暴动》 3、《奥米茄文件》 4、《谁谋杀了总统》 5、《福尔摩斯和公爵的儿子》 6、《白色死亡》 7、《绿野仙踪》 8、《难忘米兰达》 9、《福尔摩斯与赛马》 10、《汤姆·索亚历险记》
第二级
第二级:600生词量,适合初二、初三学生,分上、下两册,共25本 上册(共12本) 1、《威廉·莎士比亚》 2、《格雷丝·达林》 3、《钢琴之恋》 4、《莫尔格街凶杀案》 5、《鲁宾孙漂流记》 6、《爱丽丝漫游奇境记》 7、《格林·盖布尔斯来的安妮》 8、《五个孩子和沙精》 9、《风中奇缘》 10、《长池村的故事》 11、《欧·亨利短篇小说集》 12、《分享年》 下册(共13本) 1、《神秘女人——阿加莎·克里斯蒂》 2、《德拉库拉》 3、《乔纳森·哈克的日记》 4、《亨利八世和他的六位妻子》 5、《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》 6、《阿利格拉之谜》 7、《五镇故事》 8、《法兰克福的耳环》 9、《新森林的孩子们》 10、《福尔摩斯探案故事》 11、《一个国王的爱情故事》 12、《亡灵岛》 13、《坎特维尔幽灵》
第三级
第三级:1000生词量,适合初三、高一学生,分上、下两册,共19本 上册(共10本) 1、《弗兰肯斯坦》 2、《野性的呼唤》 3、《秘密花园》 4、《曾达的囚徒》 5、《爱丽丝镜中世界奇遇记》 6、《风语河岸柳》 7、《神秘幻想故事集》 8、《铁路少年》 9、《三个陌生人》 10、《伊桑·佛罗姆》 下册(共9本) 1、《圣诞欢歌》 2、《多里安·格雷的画像》 3、《勃朗特一家的故事》 4、《牙齿和爪子》 5、《星际动物园》 6、《诱拐》 7、《公正》 8、《化学秘密》 9、《劫机!》
第四级
第四级:1500生词量,适合高一、高二学生,分上、下两册,共17本 上册(共9本) 1、《巴斯克维尔猎犬》 2、《不平静的坟墓》 3、《三怪客泛舟记》 4、《三十九级台阶》 5、《小妇人》 6、《克兰福德》 7、《华盛顿广场》 8、《织工马南》 9、《化身博士》 下册(共8本) 1、《双城记》 2、《格列佛游记》 3、《金银岛》 4、《黑骏马》 5、《红字》 6、《极限之旅》 7、《吉姆老爷》 8、《洛娜·杜恩》
第五级
第五级:2000生词量,适合高二、高三学生,共6本。 1、《大卫·科波菲尔》 2、《远离尘嚣》 3、《远大前程》 4、《呼啸山庄》 5、《园会》 6、《理智与情感》
第六级
第六级:2300生词量,适合高三、大学低年级学生,共5本 1、《简·爱》 2、《雾都孤儿》 3、《傲慢与偏见》 4、《苔丝》 5、《白衣女人》
⑹ 远大前程英文简短概要
内容如下:
The development of the novel story can be roughly divided into three parts. The first part describes Pip's simple childhood in the countryside.
He met a fugitive by chance.
And stole something from home to help him. Soon, Pip was invited to play in Miss Haweishamu's Sadisi.
And his heart changed. He fell in love with the beautiful but indifferent Estella and began to feel ashamed of his own origin and loved ones.
One day, Pip was suddenly funded by a person who did not want to be named. He was overjoyed to be sent to London to receive a superior ecation.
译文如下:
小说故事的发展大致可分成三个部分。第一部分记述了皮普在乡间的质朴的童年生活。一次偶然的机会他遇见了一名逃犯。
并偷了家里的东西帮助他。不久,皮普受邀到哈维沙姆小姐的萨蒂斯大院玩耍,从此内心发生变化。他爱上了美丽却冷漠的埃斯特拉,开始为自己的出身及亲人感到害臊。
一天,皮普突然受到一位不愿透露姓名的人士资助。被送到伦敦接受上等人的教育,他为此欣喜若狂。
《远大前程》又译《孤星血泪》,是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯晚年写成的长篇小说。成书于1860年至1861年之间,该小说自1860年12月到1861年8月连载于作者制作的周刊《一年四季》。
创作背景
《远大前程》一书属于查尔斯·狄更斯的晚期作品,它写于狄更斯生活中出现危机之后。他刚与妻子凯瑟琳分手,这给他带来了巨大的痛苦。同时,他开始了与年轻的演员爱伦·特南的婚外爱情,这一段感情给他带来的痛苦多于幸福。
这一时期,由于对社会黑暗认识的进一步加深,加上年龄的增长,个人婚姻爱情生活方面的不幸,作者思想中抑郁的一面有所增强,反映在创作中,乐观的基调大大削弱。作为对社会弊端的反映和对人情世态的写照,狄更斯的叙事艺术显示出微妙的变化,狄更斯的创作处于自我疑虑增长的时期。
⑺ 英语专业学生必看的英语书籍推荐
读一些经典的英文作品。是学习英语的一种有效方法,如果你是学习英语专业的,就多看看一些经典的英语著作吧!下面是由我给大家带来关于英语专业学生必看的英语书籍推荐,希望对大家有帮助!
英语专业学生必看的英语书籍
英语专业学生必看的英语书1、《David Copperfield》《大卫·科波菲尔》
作者:查尔斯·狄更斯
简介:《大卫·科波菲尔》又译名“块肉余生录”(“块肉”即孤儿),是19世纪英国批判现实主义作家查尔斯·狄更斯的一部重要作品,写于1848—1850年。在这部带有自传性质的小说里,狄更斯藉“大卫自身的历史和经验”,从某些方面回顾和总结了自己的生活道路,表现出他的人生态度、道德理想。作品所展示的绘声绘色、丰富多彩的生活画面,具有鲜明深刻的时代特点。
英语专业学生必看的英语书2、《GreatExpectations》《远大前程》
作者:查尔斯·狄更斯
简介:《远大前程》又译《孤星血泪》,是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯晚年写成的教育小说。故事背景为1812年耶诞节前夕至1840年冬天,主角孤儿皮普(Pip)以自传式手法,叙述从7岁开始的三个人生阶段。此小说贯彻了狄更斯文以载道的风格,透过剧中孤儿的跌宕起落,表达他对生命和人性的看法。该小说自1860年12月到1861年8月连载于作者制作的周刊《一年四季》,百年来被多次改编成电影、电视剧及舞台剧。
英语专业学生必看的英语书3、《Jane Eyre》《简·爱》
作者:夏洛蒂·勃朗特
简介:《简·爱》是十九世纪英国著名的女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作,人们普遍认为《简·爱》是夏洛蒂·勃朗特“诗意的生平写照”,是一部具有自传色彩的作品。讲述一位从小变成孤儿的英国女子在各种磨难中不断追求自由与尊严,坚持自我,最终获得幸福的故事。夏洛蒂·勃朗特、艾米莉·勃朗特、安妮·勃朗特和勃朗宁夫人构成那个时代英国妇女最高荣誉的完美的三位一体。
英语专业学生必看的英语书4、《Robinson Crusoe》《鲁滨逊漂流记》
作者:丹尼尔·笛福
简介:《鲁滨逊飘流记》是18世纪英国作家达尼尔·笛福的代表作品,也是一部具有广泛的世界性影响的作品。小说以1704年一名苏格兰水手亚历山大·薛里基洛克航海遇险,飘流在一个荒岛上,并且单独留居了四年才被救回了故事作为素材,加工而成的。
英语专业学生必看的英语书5、《Tessof the D’Urbervilles》《德伯家的苔丝》
作者:哈代
简介:《德伯家的苔丝》是哈代的代表作,是"威塞克斯系列"中的一部。它描写了一位农村姑娘的悲惨命运。哈代在小说的副标题中称女主人公为"一个纯洁的女人",公开地向维多利亚时代虚伪的社会道德挑战。女主人公苔丝生于一个贫苦小贩家庭,父母要她到一个富老太婆家去攀亲戚,结果她被少爷亚历克诱奸,后来她与牧师的儿子克莱尔恋爱并订婚,在新婚之夜她把昔日的不幸向丈夫坦白,却没能得到原谅,两人分居,丈夫去了巴西,几年后,苔丝再次与亚历克相遇,后者纠缠她,这时候她因家境窘迫不得不与仇人同居,不久克莱尔从国外回来,向妻子表示悔恨自己以往的冷酷无情,在这种情况下,苔丝痛苦地觉得是亚历克·德伯使她第二次失去了安吉尔便愤怒地将他杀死。最后她被捕并被处以绞刑。
英语专业学生必看的英语书6、《Lord of the Flies 》《蝇王》
作者:威廉·戈尔丁
简介:英国作家、诺贝尔文学奖获得者威廉·戈尔丁的代表作,是一本重要的哲理小说,借小孩的天真来探讨人性的恶这一严肃主题。故事发生于想象中的第三次世界大战,一群六岁至十二岁的儿童在撤退途中因飞机失事被困在一座荒岛上,起先尚能和睦相处,后来由于恶的本性的膨胀起来,便互相残杀,发生悲剧性的结果。作者将抽象的哲理命题具体化,让读者通过阅读引人入胜的故事和激动人心的争斗场面来加以体悟,人物、场景、故事、意象等都深具象征意义。
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⑻ 《远大前程》英语读后感
【篇一】远大前程英语读后感
Great Expectations has been considered to be one of Charles Dickens’ most mature and relatively late works. Having experienced a wealth of human life, Dickens got a profound understanding of human-being, the surrounding environment and his life experiences while all his mature thinking and understanding were summarized into the book Great Expectations.
The original meaning of the work’s title in fact is a heritage, but when it was translated into Chinese it gave me an impression that the title shows the hero of the story had Great Expectations. However, reading over the book I realized that this Great Expectations takes an ironic bandit should be said that the theme of this work not only told the story of orphan Pip who wanted to be the ideal first-class disillusionment. If one does think so, he holds a wrong understanding of the great significance why Dickens creative the work.
The hero Pip lived with his sister’s family. Though their life was hard, Pip didn’t wish to be a first-class person his vision was to be a blacksmith like his brother-in-law, his sister’s husband. The reason why he changed his mind and was eager to be a first-class person later was the changing of environmenthe met Miss Harvisham, Estella and some other complex people. As we know one of Dickens's philosophy thoughts is environment takes a deep impact to humans’ ideological and the story expresses his view that different environment creates different people.
In short, I think the work was not arbitrarily written, but was based on the 10 works before aggregating Dickens’ thoughts. What is more, Dickens had put his outlook on life, his views of philosophy and ethics into the great creation.
【篇二】远大前程读后感英文版
With so many famous masterpieces on the booklist, it is really a pretty hard job to choose one to read first. After much hesitation and deeply thought, I finally decided to borrow Great Expectations from the small library.
Great Expectations is about love, family, and rejection as Pip and Miss Havisham have both been rejected in certain ways. Pip is a boy around 13 years old, easy to fright, and goes through his life suffering lots of sadness. He is in love with a girl named Estella and wants her to find his love, but for him being shy and not showing himself to her, it makes it very hard for him.
Great Expectations was the penultimate novel completed by the most popular novelist of Victorian England, Charles Dickens. Born in Kent, England, in 1812 to a family of modest means but great pretensions, Dickens’s early life was marked by both humiliation and ambition. Dickens never forgot the period of financial crisis ring his childhood, when following his father’s bankruptcy, he was taken out of school and forced to work in a shoepolish warehouse.
Pip meets an escaped convict, Magwitch, and gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives.
When Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor he snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and hisgreat expectations。
I set up my mind to select it for the reason that I have read a brief introction of this masterpiece in my high school English textbook before. In addition, a Tale of Two Cities which is also written by Charles Dickens, the outstanding and special English writer, left me a wonderful and deep impression, when I finished reading the marvelous story.
Of course, Great Expectations didn’t let me down, either. What’s more, the whole structure of the novel is well and elaborately designed. The plot is extremely attractive and full of unexpected twists. Quite a few characters have a distinguishable personality. Moreover, those words and sentences are so beautiful and meaningful that I even took them down carefully in my notebook. By reading them no less than three times, I have learned not only some new phrases and sentences, but also a philosophy of life.
Among the characters, which impressed me most are not Pip and Estella who should be regarded as the leading roles, but Joe and Magwitch. I feel awfully sorry that I was not brave enough to read the original edition that is as thick as a brick. Otherwise, I may appreciate Joe and Magwitch more. Yes, they are not the main characters in the novel. However, what they said and what they did deeply touched me. It’s interesting, isn’t it? They are quite the opposite guys. One is a totally good man without the least bit of wickedness while the other is a prisoner who is believed to have committed every evil.
I believe that everyone who reads the book is to like Joe. When he talked about his heavy drinking father who hit him a lot, he said he had a lot of love. Faced with his rude wife, he would rather seem a bit weak or foolish than stand up to her and fight for himself. Knowing peacockish Pip was ashamed of his unecated manners, he left sadly and quietly. The world rushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making the music of sadness. But when he was informed of Pip’s illness, he immediately came to take good care of Pip. He is always contributing everything and requiring nothing. Such a man is Joe, kind, tolerant and selfless. Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless as cowardice, says a wise author.
However, why do I appreciate Magwitch, the bad guy? You may wonder. Indeed, Magwitch did a lot of evil things when he was young. But how can you be unmoved when you get to know that the old man kept himself going just by thinking of the boy who once did him a small favor? He lost his only daughter and Pip had no parents, so he considered himself as the boy’s second father, making up his mind to help his dear boy became a gentleman. He did every kind of job and led a hard life in Australia. At last he made a big fortune and promised himself that all the money would go to Pip. He could have led a better life in Australia ,but Ihe chose to go back to London .with the simple intention of seeing Pip, he went back at the risk of being hanged! whatever the fault he had from the start, remember, reader, he had a good heart. Joe used these words to describe his father. But I think these words can better describe Magwitch. He lived with the fear of death all his life. Who shuts love out, in turn shall be shut out from love. However, thankfully, because Pip finally realized his good heart, his ending was peaceful.
Dickens has Pip as the writer and first person narrator of this account of his life's experiences, and the entire story is understood to have been written as a retrospective, rather than as a present tense narrative or a diary or journal. Still, though Pip knows how all the events in the story will turn out, he uses only very subtle foreshadowing so that we learn of events only when the Pip in the story does. Pip does, however, use the perspective of the bitter lessons he's learned to comment acidly on various actions and attitudes in his earlier life.
I know how to fully understand this novel, twice is far from enough. Pip, Estella, Miss Havisham, Biddy even Mr Wemmick, every single character has a story that is well worth my attention. I love this novel so much that I am determined to read the original edition one day. Believe me. But before that day comes, I will see the movie Great Expectations first.
Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs.
⑼ 远大前程英语读书笔记
远大前程英语读书笔记
《远大前程》又译《孤星血泪》,是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯晚年写成的'长篇小说。以下是我搜索整理的《远大前程》的英语读书笔记,欢迎阅读!
“Great expectations” is one of Dicken’s most maturest works. After Dicken had experienced large part of meaningful life, he had a deeper cognition for people, environment, as well as the life which he had gone through. And all the mature cognitions are included in this writing---Great expectations.
Pip was brought up by his sister who was unpleasant as well as crude and her friendly blacksmith husband—Joe. Joe himself had arranged a common hard but satisfied path for Pip to go through, and on the other hand, Pip beheld this as his highest goal to achieve.
But the two things which he had experienced later had changed his pursue and his fate as well. Met Abel Magwith(an escaped convict) in the swamp, and unwillingly helped him out of danger by stealing food from his own home. If say that had changed his attitude for material life, then, his introction to Miss Havisham, an aging woman who had been jilted at the alter and Estella who had been brought up by Havisham only to revenge for her own pain had brought vast shock for his world of spirit.
Aspiring to be a gentleman despite his humble born, Pip fortunately or unfortunately received a fund of wealth from an unknown source and being sent to London with a lawyer. From then on, he became a gentleman without question at the price of losing everything.
The title of this book is ‘Great expectations” which make an impression on us that the character would have great expectations just as the title goes. But in fact this title has a tone of sarcastic on the other way around.
This story full of quirkiness from the very beginning to the end, the relations among characters are anfractuous as well which actually attracted me a lot.
One of the paragraphs, which I appreciate most implicatively as well as beautifully expresses the feeling between Pip and Estella.
“We are friends,” said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench.
‘And will continue friends apart.” Said Estella.
I took his hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first let the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
At the view of language, this works had achieved a step o f highest, Dicken had made this writing plain and fluent as well, which surely can attract lots of readers and high comments.
To be frank, I really impressed by this art of beauty. So I like Dicken’s works very much.
In this summer holidays, I read a book called < Great Expectations>, it was written by Charles Dickens, one of the most famous English writers. He wrote lots of wonderful novels. This book is one of his compositions.
People always like to compare with their friends. It is a big foible of all the people. If other people have a lot of money, we also want to be rich. If all the people around us are poor , we never mind that we are very poor, too. we will not ashamed because of our folly. This is a social problem.
If we never possess anything, we will not mind we lost some thing. Since we don’t want to be very rich ,we will not feel despond because poor.
The protagonist of this novel is Pip (Handel). His parents died when he was a baby. His sister had brought him up ‘by hand’. His sister married to Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith. They didn’t have much money, and Pip never went to school to study. But he was often very happy .Because all of his friends are like him. It isn’t very unfortunate to them, this is their lives. But by a chance, Pip helped a convict; he gave much food to him. Then he met Miss Havisham, a very strange old woman and she was very rich.
Four years later, Miss Havisham wants Pip to be removed from his home and ecated as a gentleman who expects inherit a fortune when he grow up.
After hearing that . Pip started to despise his poor friends. He even feel ashamed because he live with the poor man . Pip’s ‘great expectations’ destroyed his life.
This novel told us that we cannot compare with others .Don’t feel envy at the others money. And if one day you be very rich , please don’t despise your poor friends.
All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her,but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house,and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out,or that any food was missing.At half-past one our two guests arrived.Mr Wopsle had a large nose and a shining,bald forehead,and was the church clerk.Mr Pumblechook, who had a shop in the nearest town,was a fat,middle-aged man witn a mouth like a fish,and staring eyes.He was really Joe's uncle but it was Mrs Joe who called him uncle.Every Christmas Day he arrived with two bottles of wine,handing them proudly to my sister.
‘Oh Uncle Pumblechook!This is kind!’she always replied.
‘It's no more than you deserve,’was the answer every time.
Sitting at table with these guests I would have felt uncomfortable even if I hadn't robbed my sister.Not only was Pumblechook's elbow in my eye,but I wasn't allowed to speak,and they gave me the worst pieces of meat.Even the chickens must have been ashamed of those parts of their bodies when they were alive.And worse than that,the alts never left me in peace.
‘Before we eat,let us thank God for the food in front of us,’said Mr Wopsle,in the deep voice he used in church.
‘Do you hear that?’whispered my sister to me.‘Be grateful!’
‘Especially,’said Mr Pumblechook firmly,‘be grateful,boy,to those who brought you up by hand.’
‘Why are the young never grateful?’wondered Mr Wopsle sadly.
‘Their characters are naturally bad,’answered Mr Pumblechook,and all three looked unpleasantly at me.
When there were guests,Joe's position was even lower than usual(if that was possible),but he always tried to help me if he could.Sometimes he comforted me by giving me extra gravy.He did that now.
‘Just imagine,boy,’said Mr Pumblechook,‘if your sister hadn't brought you up—’
‘You listen to this,’said my sister to me crossly.
‘If,as I say,she hadn't spent her life looking after you,where would you be now?’
Joe offered me more gravy.
‘He was a lot of trouble to you,madam,’Mr Wopsle said sympathetically to my sister.
‘Trouble?’she cried.‘Trouble?’And then she started on a list of all my illnesses,accidents and crimes,while everybody except Joe looked at me with disgust.Joe added more gravy to the meat swimming on my plate,and I wanted to pull Mr Wopsle's nose.
In the end Mrs Joe stopped for breath,and said to Mr Pumblechook,‘Have a little brandy,uncle.There is a bottle al-ready open.’
It had happened at last!Now she would discover I had stolen some brandy,and put water in the bottle.Mr Pumblechook held his glass up to the light,smiled importantly at it and drank it.When,immediately afterwards,he jumped up and began to rush round the room in a strange wild dance,we all stared at him in great surprise.Was he mad?I wondered if I had murdered him,but if so,how?At last he threw himself gasping into a chair,crying ‘Medicine!’Then I understood.Instead of filling up the brandy bottle with water,I had put Mrs Joe's strongest and most unpleasant medicine in by mistake.That was what the big brown bottle contained.
‘But how could my medicine get into a brandy bottle?’asked my sister.Fortunately she had no time to find the answer,as Mr Pumblechook was calling for a hot rum to remove the taste of the medicine.‘And now,’she said,when the fat man was calmer,‘you must all try Uncle Pumblechook's pre-sent to us!A really delicious meat pie!’
‘That's right,Mrs Joe!’said Mr Pumblechook,looking more cheerful now.‘ Bring in the pie!’
‘You shall have some,Pip,’said Joe kindly.
I knew what would happen next.I could not sit there any longer.I jumped down from the table,and ran out of the room.
But at the front door I ran straight into a group of soldiers.Mrs Joe was saying as she came out of the kitchen,‘The pie-has-gone!’but stopped when she saw the soldiers.
‘Excuse me,ladies and gentlemen,’said the officer in charge.‘I'm here in the King's name,and I want the black-smith.’
‘And why do you want him?’said my sister crossly.
‘Madam,’replied the officer Politely,‘speaking for myself,I'd like the pleasure of meeting his fine wife.Speaking for the King,I'd like him to repair these handcuffs.’
‘Ah,very good,very good!’ said Mr Pumblechook,clap-ping.
The soldiers waited in the kitchen while Joe lit the forge fire and started work.I began to feel better now that everyone had forgotten the missing pie.
‘How far are we from the marshes?’asked the officer.
‘About a mile,’replied Mrs Joe.
‘ That's good.We'll catch them before it's dark.’
‘ Convicts,officer?’asked Mr Wopsle.
‘Yes,two escaped convicts out on the marshes.Has anyone here seen them?’
The others all shook their heads.Nobody asked me.When the handcuffs were ready,Joe suggested we should go with the soldiers,and as Mrs Joe was curious to know what happened,she agreed.So Joe,Mr wopsle and I walked behind the men through the village and out on to the marshes.
‘ I hope we don't find those poor men,Joe,’I whispered.
‘ I hope not either,Pip,’he whispered back.It was cold,with an east wind blowing from the sea,and it was getting dark.
Suddenly we all stopped.We heard shouts in the distance.
‘This way!Run!’the officer ordered,and we all rushed in that direction.The shouts became clearer.‘ Murder!’‘Escaped convict!’‘Help!’At last we discovered two men fighting each other.One was my convict,and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter.Somehow the soldiers held the men apart and put the hand-cuffs on them.
‘Here he is,I'm holding him for you!’shouted my convict.
‘Officer,he tried to murder me!’cried the other man.His face was bleeding and he was clearly very frightened.
‘ Murder him!No,’said the first,‘ that would be too easy.I want him to suffer more,back on the prison-ship.He's lying,as he did at our trial!You can't trust Compeyson!’
Just then he noticed me for the first time.I shook my head at him,to show that I had not wanted the soldiers to find him.He stared at me,but I did not know if he understood or not.
The prisoners were taken to the riverside,where a boat was waiting to take them on to the prison-ship.Just as he was about to leave,my convict said,‘Officer,after my escape,I stole some food,from the blacksmith's house.Bread,cheese,brandy and a meat pie.I'm sorry I ate your pie,blacksmith.’
‘I'm glad you did,’replied Joe kindly.‘ We don't know why you're a convict,but we wouldn't want you to die of hunger.’
The man rubbed his eyes with the back of his dirty hand.We watched the small boat carry him out to the middle of the river,where the great black prison-ship stood high out of the water,held by its rusty chains.He disappeared into the ship,and I thought that was the last I had seen of him.
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