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1、BleakHouseDickens,CharlesPublished:18531AboutDickens:CharlesJohnHuffamDickenspen-name"Boz",wastheforemostEng-lishnovelistoftheVictorianera,aswellasavigoroussocialcampaigner.ConsideredoneoftheEnglishlanguage'sgreatestwriters,hewasac-claimedforhisrichstorytellingandmemorablech
2、aracters,andachievedmassiveworldwidepopularityinhislifetime.Latercritics,beginningwithGeorgeGissingandG.K.Chesterton,championedhismasteryofprose,hisendlessinventionofmemorablecharactersandhispowerfulsocialsensibilities.YethehasalsoreceivedcriticismfromwriterssuchasGeorgeHenr
3、yLewes,HenryJames,andVirginiaWoolf,wholistsenti-mentality,implausibleoccurrenceandgrotesquecharactersasfaultsinhisoeuvre.ThepopularityofDickens'novelsandshortstorieshasmeantthatnonehaveevergoneoutofprint.Dickenswroteserialisednovels,whichwastheusualformatforfictionatthetime,
4、andeachnewpartofhisstorieswouldbeeagerlyanticipatedbythereadingpublic.Source:Wikipedia2PrefaceAChanceryjudgeoncehadthekindnesstoinformme,asoneofacom-panyofsomehundredandfiftymenandwomennotlabouringunderanysuspicionsoflunacy,thattheCourtofChancery,thoughtheshiningsubjectofmuc
5、hpopularprejudice(atwhichpointIthoughtthejudge’seyehadacastinmydirection),wasalmostimmaculate.Therehadbeen,headmitted,atrivialblemishorsoinitsrateofprogress,butthiswasexaggeratedandhadbeenentirelyowingtothe“parsimonyofthepub-lic,”whichguiltypublic,itappeared,hadbeenuntillate
6、lybentinthemostdeterminedmanneronbynomeansenlargingthenumberofChanceryjudgesappointed—IbelievebyRichardtheSecond,butanyotherkingwilldoaswell.ThisseemedtometooprofoundajoketobeinsertedinthebodyofthisbookorIshouldhaverestoredittoConversationKengeortoMr.Vholes,withoneorotherofw
7、homIthinkitmusthaveoriginated.InsuchmouthsImighthavecoupleditwithanaptquotationfromoneofShakespeare’ssonnets:“MynatureissubduedTowhatitworksin,likethedyer’shand:Pityme,then,andwishIwererenewed!”Butasitiswholesomethattheparsimoniouspublicshouldknowwhathasbeendoing,andstillisd
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