Christmas Carol》的英文简介狄更斯的作品

Christmas Carol》的英文简介狄更斯的作品
Christmas Carol》的英文简介
狄更斯的作品

Christmas Carol》的英文简介狄更斯的作品
A Christmas Carol in Prose,Being a Ghost Story of Christmas 又名 A Christmas Carol.Charles Dickens著,最早出版于1843年12月19日,是著名的圣诞故事.作者写这本书的时候正好是当时人开始逐渐失去传统圣诞节的衰败期.该书出版后就引起巨大反响,有评论家说这如今圣诞节如此流行且重要都归功于此书.
该书描述了富有、吝啬又暴躁的会计所老板Scrooge在一个圣诞夜遭遇的一系列奇异事件.他在自己的办公室遭遇了前老板的灵魂,回家在睡梦中又有一群灵魂造访,他们带着他神游,重温他生活经历中的点点滴滴,又向他展示了一个守财奴生命最后一刻的悲惨景象,并告诫他如果不改变自己的吝啬同样的事情就会发生在他身上.经历了这一切的Scrooge从此改变了人生态度变得慷慨、乐于好施,并且深受人们爱戴.

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol) is a novella by Charles Dickens[1] first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Le...

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A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol) is a novella by Charles Dickens[1] first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech.[2] The story was an instant success, selling over six thousand copies in one week, and the tale has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time.
Contemporaries noted that the story's popularity played a critical role in redefining the importance of Christmas and the major sentiments associated with the holiday. A Christmas Carol was written during a time of decline in the old Christmas traditions.[3] "If Christmas, with its ancient and hospitable customs, its social and charitable observances, were in danger of decay, this is the book that would give them a new lease," said English poet Thomas Hood.[4]
Plot introduction
A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one night. Mr. Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth. He holds anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love and the Christmas season.
Explanation of the book's title
Originally a medieval round dance and then a word for a particular type of ballad[5], by Dickens’ time the word carol had come closer to its modern meaning, being a joyful hymn specific to Christmas. Dickens takes this musical analogy further, dividing the novella into five “staves”, instead of chapters.

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