【商品详情】
Author Charles Dickens
Format Paperback | 416 pages
Dimensions 175 x 240 x 15mm | 440g
Publication date 23 Dec 2008
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint SIGNET CLASSICS
Language English
Edition statement 200th Anniversary ed.
ISBN10 0451530578
ISBN13 9780451530578
【书籍简介】
《双城记》自问世以来，深受读者的欢迎，能和《大卫·科波菲尔》相媲美。
是一部以法国大革命为背景所写成的长篇历史小说，情节感人肺腑，世界文学经典名著之一，故事中将巴黎、伦敦两个大城市连结起来，围绕着曼奈特医生一家和以德法奇夫妇为首的圣安东尼区展开故事。小说描写了贵族如何败坏、如何残害百姓，人民心中积压对贵族的刻骨仇恨，导致了不可避免的法国大革命。
The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times...
The storming of the Bastille...the death carts with their doomed human cargo...the swift drop of the guillotine blade--this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities.
With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; Charles Darnay, the lover with a secret past; and dissolute Sydney Carton, whose unlikely heroism gives his life meaning.
With an Introduction by Frederick Busch and an Afterword by A. N. Wilson
【作者简介】
英国小说家，出生于海军小职员家庭，10岁时全家被迫迁入负债者监狱，11岁就承担起繁重的家务劳动。曾在皮鞋作坊当学徒，16岁时在律师事务所当缮写员，后担任报社采访记者。他只上过几年学，全靠刻苦自学和艰辛劳动成为知名作家。
狄更斯是19世纪英国现实主义文学的主要代表。艺术上以妙趣横生的幽默、细致入微的心理分析，以及现实主义描写与浪漫主义气氛的有机结合著称。马克思把他和萨克雷等称誉为英国的“一批杰出的小说家”
