查尔斯狄更斯的英文介绍?

查尔斯狄更斯的英文介绍?
查尔斯狄更斯的英文介绍?

查尔斯狄更斯的英文介绍?
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens,the greatest representative(代表) of English critical realism (批判现实主义),was born in 1812 at Portsmouth.When he was four years old,his family moved to Chatham,and the five years he spent there were the happiest of all his boyhood.One day,he found a pile of English novels,which aroused his curiosity.Now the key to the treasure-house of literature had been put in his hand.
In 1821 the Dickens family moved to a poor quarter in London.Mr.Dickens was heavily in debt and did not know which way to turn for money.Finally he was taken to the Marshalsea Prison,London,for debt.Shortly afterwards Mrs.Dickens and the younger children went to the prison,too,to join the father.
The 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory in the East End of London.Work there began at eight in the morning and ended at eight at night.Sundays he spent at the prison,and during the week he was out working all day.His miserable life at the factory left an everlasting,painful brand on the boy’s mind.Years later,when he was a man,he would not walk by the place where the factory had lain.All this had a deep influence on Dickens’ thought and work in after years.
Charles Dickens visited American in the fall of 1867.Wherever he went,the reception was always the same.The night before tickets went on sale,crowds arrived and lined up before the door.By morning the streets became campgrounds with men,women,and children sitting or sleeping right there.Hustlers(票贩子) were asking $25 for $2 tickets and $50 for $5 seats.In New York City,over 5,000 people waited from nine o’clock in the morning for the evening performance.Everywhere the readings were successful,but audiences were surprised to hear their favorite novel characters speak with an English accent.After 76 readings,Dickens got on a ship for England.When his fellow passengers requested a reading,he replied that rather than read a word,he would assault(殴打) the captain and be put in prison.
The Critical Realism:The main stylistic feature of Dickens is his use of critical realism.Dickens’ novels are set in realistic environments such as in the factory or in the street.His characters represent all aspects of society from beggars,criminals and orphans to factory owners.This critically realistic description of Victorian working class life is perhaps the very essence(要素) which makes Dickens one of the greatest authors of all time.

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很全Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is considered to be one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy.
Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. In 1814 Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education. He worked in a blacking factory, Hungerford Market, London, while his family was in Marshalea debtor's prison in 1824).
In 1824-27 Dickens studied at Wellington House Academy, London, and at Mr. Dawson's school in 1827. From 1827 to 1828 he was a law office clerk, and then worked as a shorthand reporter at Doctor's Commons. He wrote for True Son (1830-32), Mirror of Parliament (1832-34) and the Morning Chronicle (1834-36). He was in the 1830s a contributor to the Monthly Magazine, and The Evening Chronicle and edited Bentley's Miscellany. In the 1840s Dickens founded Master Humphry's Clock and edited the London Daily News.
Dickens's career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays appeared in periodicals. His Sketches By Boz and The Pickwick Papers were published in 1836.In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogarth.
The Pickwick Papers were stories about a group of rather odd individuals and their travels to Ipswich, Rochester, Bath and elsewhere. Dickens's novels first appeared in monthly installments, including Oliver Twist (1837-39), which depicts the London underworld and hard years of the foundling Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickelby (1838-39), a tale of young Nickleby's struggles to seek his fortune, and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41).
Among his later works are David Copperfield (1849-50), where Dickens used his own personal experiences of work in a factory, Bleak House (1852-53), A Tale Of Two Cities (1859), set in the years of the French Revolution and Great Expectations (1860-61)
From the 1840s Dickens spent much time traveling and campaigning against many of the social evils of his time. In addition he gave talks and reading, wrote pamphlets, plays, and letters. In the 1850s Dickens was founding editor of Household Words and its successor All the Year Round (1859-70). In 1844-45 he lived in Italy, Switzerland and Paris. He gave lecturing tours in Britain and the United States in 1858-68.
From 1860 Dickens lived at Gadshill Place, near Rochester, Kent. He died at Gadshill on June 9, 1870. The unfinished mystery novel The Mystery Of Edwin Drood was published in 1870.

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