狄更斯是一位知名度极高的作家，其作品也以“真实，严谨，具讽喻性，须静心慢读”为特色。炎炎夏日，在图书馆的清凉里读书是上上之选；那么，何不来到三楼外文书区，选一本狄更斯先生的名著，在图书馆中泡一下午呢？本期外文书单推荐3本本馆收藏的狄更斯著作，欢迎您来！
1 Dickens: Dombey and Son
董贝父子
索书号：I561/44/12
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The hopes of Mr Dombey for the future of his shipping firm are centred on his delicate son Paul, and Florence, his devoted daughter, is unloved and neglected. When the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, only Florence has the strength and humanity to save her father from desolate solitude.
董贝先生经营着一家航运公司；他把希望完全寄托在纤弱，敏感的儿子保罗身上。而他那位非常善良孝顺的女儿弗洛伦斯却得不到他的丝毫关注。到头来，航运公司惨遭倒闭，董贝先生声名狼藉，第二次婚姻也告破碎。这时，还是弗洛伦斯挺身而出，用她的勇气和品格拯救了董贝先生，让他的晚年不至于凄惨度过。
2 Dickens: the Pickwick Papers
匹克威克外传
索书号：I561/44/19
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The Pickwick Papers was Dickens's response to his publisher's request for a monthly series of sporting sketches. It became the most famous of all pre-Victorian novels. The central characters, Mr Pickwick and Sam Weller,are as familiar today as they became on publication, and there are over a hundred other speaking parts. The action is set in the late Georgian period of the writer's earliest youth, drawing on experience and acute observation ranging from the unreformed election at Eatanswill to the horrors of the debtors' prison. Brilliantly comic, it also exposes social and especially legal abuses, as in the notorious trial of Bardell v. Pickwick.Dickens's satire is both topical and timeless.
《匹克威克外传》是狄更斯应出版商要求，每月撰写的短文汇总。它成为前维多利亚时期的小说翘楚。中心人物匹克威克先生和萨姆·韦勒，放在今天的社会也毫不违和；此外还有一百多个其他的台词角色。故事涉猎了未经改革的选举，负债入狱等恐怖经验，充满了作者敏锐的观察。它不仅具有出色的喜剧性，还揭露了社会上，尤其是法律上不公正的行为，例如臭名昭著的巴德尔诉匹克威克案的审判。狄更斯的讽刺既是热门的，也是永恒的。
3 Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
双城记
索书号：I561/44/2
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Two cities, and two men caught up in the terrifying events of the French Revolution. In London, French aristocrat Charles Darnay and dissolute English barrister Sydney Carton fall in love with the same woman.
Unwillingly drawn to Paris, Darnay faces the revolutionary anarchy of the Terror; Carton, too, his destiny entwined with that of his rival, faces his ultimate test in the French capital.
Considered by Dickens to be 'the best story I have written',A Tale of Two Cities is a powerful portrait of tumult and change for individuals, as well as for the course of history.
This edition includes extensive notes on the background to the Revolution and a useful chronology of the historical and fictional events in the novel.
这是最好的时代，这是最坏的时代。
两个城市，两个人卷入了法国大革命的可怕事件。在伦敦，法国贵族查尔斯·达尔内和放荡的英国大律师西德尼·卡顿爱上了同一个女人。
达尔内不情愿地去了巴黎，而在这儿，他面临着革命无政府状态的恐怖。卡尔顿的命运，也与他的对手交织在一起，二人在法国首都面临着最终的考验。
狄更斯认为《双城记》是“我写过的最好的故事”，它有力地描绘了个人以及历史进程的波动和变化。
本馆收藏的这个版本也包含了有关革命背景的大量注释，以及小说中历史和虚构事件的对应年表。
