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1、DombeyandSonDickens,CharlesPublished:1848Type(s):NovelsSource:http://en.wikisource.org1AboutDickens:CharlesJohnHuffamDickenspen-name"Boz",wastheforemostEng-lishnovelistoftheVictorianera,aswellasavigoroussocialcampaigner.ConsideredoneoftheEnglishlanguage'sgreatestw
2、riters,hewasac-claimedforhisrichstorytellingandmemorablecharacters,andachievedmassiveworldwidepopularityinhislifetime.Latercritics,beginningwithGeorgeGissingandG.K.Chesterton,championedhismasteryofprose,hisendlessinventionofmemorablecharactersandhispowerfulsocials
3、ensibilities.YethehasalsoreceivedcriticismfromwriterssuchasGeorgeHenryLewes,HenryJames,andVirginiaWoolf,wholistsenti-mentality,implausibleoccurrenceandgrotesquecharactersasfaultsinhisoeuvre.ThepopularityofDickens'novelsandshortstorieshasmeantthatnonehaveevergoneou
4、tofprint.Dickenswroteserialisednovels,whichwastheusualformatforfictionatthetime,andeachnewpartofhisstorieswouldbeeagerlyanticipatedbythereadingpublic.Source:Wikipedia2Prefaceof1848Icannotforegomyusualopportunityofsayingfarewelltomyreadersinthisgreetingplace,though
5、Ihaveonlytoacknowledgetheunboundedwarmthandearnestnessoftheirsympathyineverystageofthejourneywehavejustconcluded.Ifanyofthemhavefeltasorrowinoneoftheprincipalincidentsonwhichthisfictionturns,Ihopeitmaybeasorrowofthatsortwhichen-dearsthesharersinit,onetoanother.Thi
6、sisnotunselfishinme.Imayclaimtohavefeltit,atleastasmuchasanybodyelse;andIwouldfainberememberedkindlyformypartintheexperience.DEVONSHIRETERRACE,Twenty-FourthMarch,1848.3Prefaceof1868Imakesoboldastobelievethatthefaculty(orthehabit)ofcorrectlyob-servingthecharacterso
7、fmen,isarareone.Ihavenotevenfound,with-inmyexperience,thatthefaculty(orthehabit)ofcorrectlyobservingsomuchasthefacesofmen,isageneralonebyanymeans.Thetwocom-monestmistakesinjudgementthatIsupposetoarisefromtheformerdefault,are,theconfoundingofshynesswitharrogance-av
8、erycommonmistakeindeed-andthenotunderstandingthatanobstinatenatureex-istsinaperpetualstrugglewithitself.MrDombeyundergoesnoviolentchange,eitherinthisboo
