Hard Times , by Charles Dickens , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics :
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. 0in 0in 0pt">Set amid smokestacks and factories, Charles Dickens ’s Hard Times is a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Championing the mind-numbing materialism of the period is Thomas Gradgrind, one of Dickens’s most vivid characters. He opens the novel by arguing that boys and girls should be taught nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.” Forbidding the development of imagination, Gradgrind is ultimately forced to confront the results of his philosophyhis own daughter’s terrible unhappiness. Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism. Karen odden received her Ph.D. from New York University, where she did her dissertation on Victorian literature. Most recently a lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she is now a freelance writer and lives in Arizona.
开头那一段说马的,真心震撼。现在还记得清清楚楚。那一大段描述,将孩子们被洗脑成维基百科的那种范儿,太厉害了。让人痛心那些孩子,从小再没有想象力,只剩下一个一个明确定义的名词,和所谓的fact。 读到后面会觉得无趣。原作的英文也确实不算简单,毕竟是19世纪的作品,很...
評分开头那一段说马的,真心震撼。现在还记得清清楚楚。那一大段描述,将孩子们被洗脑成维基百科的那种范儿,太厉害了。让人痛心那些孩子,从小再没有想象力,只剩下一个一个明确定义的名词,和所谓的fact。 读到后面会觉得无趣。原作的英文也确实不算简单,毕竟是19世纪的作品,很...
評分看的第一本狄更斯的英文原作,不得不说读的很辛苦,因为个人词汇量低,一边不停的翻字典一边琢磨每个句子的逻辑,半天也看不了几章 但光是那些句子就让人觉得妙不可言了,大概这是英语非母语的人看英文有限才会有的感慨吧…… 不过有些感觉是看原文才有的,即使自己来翻不一定...
評分1、奥威尔 (1)狄更斯不是“无产阶级”作家。他从不写无产阶级,在这点上他和古往今来的绝大多数小说家一样。如果要在小说,尤其是英国小说中寻找工人阶级的身影,最后只能是徒劳。狄更斯小说的中心情节几乎总是发生在中产阶级环境中。仔细研究他的小说,你会发现它们真正的题...
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