内容简介

Charles Dickens’s story of selfless Little Nell and her ailing grandfather and their persecution by the magnificently malignant villain Quilp has seized the imaginations and wrung the hearts of generations of readers.

Dickens’s talent was superabundant in every way: in his dramatic force and his massive productivity, in his almost surreal comic power, in his compassion and thirst for justice, and in the imaginative pressure he brought to bear on even the most incidental of his characters. The delightfully various figures in The Old Curiosity Shop range memorably from jaunty Dick Swiveller and his little half-starved Marchioness to the hard-hearted siblings Sampson and Sally Brass, jovial Mrs. Jarley, devoted Kit Nubbles, the hunchbacked Daniel Quilp, and, of course, tragic Little Nell herself. Dickens’s depiction of the fate of his main characters is famously harrowing and unfailingly suspenseful, but not the least of its charms is that it is embellished with a supporting cast of figures as grotesque and colorful as anything in the Old Curiosity Shop itself.
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This edition reprints the original Everyman’s preface by G. K. Chesterton and features seventy-five illustrations by Cattermole and Phiz.

　　还有一些部分我也不能放过，那就是下面这些地方的荒凉海岸：拉普兰，西伯利亚，斯匹次卑尔根⑥，新地岛，冰岛和格陵兰，还有“那辽阔的北极区域，和那些阴暗地带荒无人烟的地区；那儿是冰雪的贮藏所，经过几百个隆冬的积累，已经成了一片坚实的冰野，像阿尔卑斯山般一峰高似一峰，冰面晶莹光滑，绕着地极，积聚了严寒的无穷威力”。对这些惨白色的区域，我形成了一个我自己的看法：朦朦胧胧，像在孩子们脑海里沉浮的似懂非懂的概念，却又出奇地生动。这几页导言里的文字都是和后面的小插图有关联的：屹立在波涛汹涌、浪花飞溅的大海中的岩石，搁浅在荒凉海岸上的破船，还有那从云缝间俯视沉舟的幽灵般的月亮，导言中的文字就使这些画面变得重要了。

　　“简，我可不喜欢吹毛求疵或者寻根究底的人；再说，小孩儿这样打断长辈的话，实在可怕。找个地方去坐下来。不会说讨人喜欢的话，就别多嘴。”休憩室的紧隔壁是一间小小的早餐室。我溜进了那间屋子。那儿有一个书架。不一会儿，我就拿到了一本书，我特意挑一本图画很多的。我爬上窗口，缩起脚，像土耳其人那样盘腿坐着，把波纹红昵窗帘几乎完全拉拢，我就加倍隐蔽起来，仿佛坐在神龛里似的。

　　“白茜说我干了什么？”我问。

　　还有一些部分我也不能放过，那就是下面这些地方的荒凉海岸：拉普兰，西伯利亚，斯匹次卑尔根⑥，新地岛，冰岛和格陵兰，还有“那辽阔的北极区域，和那些阴暗地带荒无人烟的地区；那儿是冰雪的贮藏所，经过几百个隆冬的积累，已经成了一片坚实的冰野，像阿尔卑斯山般一峰高似一峰，冰面晶莹光滑，绕着地极，积聚了严寒的无穷威力”。对这些惨白色的区域，我形成了一个我自己的看法：朦朦胧胧，像在孩子们脑海里沉浮的似懂非懂的概念，却又出奇地生动。这几页导言里的文字都是和后面的小插图有关联的：屹立在波涛汹涌、浪花飞溅的大海中的岩石，搁浅在荒凉海岸上的破船，还有那从云缝间俯视沉舟的幽灵般的月亮，导言中的文字就使这些画面变得重要了。

到货速度比预期的快。

　　我重又低头看书，看的是比维克①的《英国禽鸟史》。一般说来，这本书的文字部分我不大爱看，但是有几页导言，我虽说是个孩子，却也不能完全当作空白翻过去。那几页导言写到海鸟常去的地方；写到只有海鸟居住的“孤寂的岩石和海岬”；写到挪威的海岸，从最南面的林讷斯内斯角②或者纳斯到北角③，沿着海岸线，点缀着许多海岛——那里，北冰洋卷起巨大的旋涡，围绕着世界尽头光秃凄凉的海岛咆哮，大西洋的惊涛骇浪激荡起落，注入风雨交加的赫布里底群岛④。

这么贵的书，也一个塑料袋包装，京东怎么想的啊？坚决换货。

狄更斯神作，被低估的作品。

很棒很棒很棒。