CHARLES DICKENS: A LIFE
Book ID/图书代码： 03635011B44207
English Summary/英文概要： Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Lady Dedlock, and many more.
At the age of twelve he was sent to work in a blacking factory by his affectionate but feckless parents. From these unpromising beginnings, he rose to scale all the social and literary heights, entirely through his own efforts. When he died, the world mourned, and he was buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey.
Yet the brilliance concealed a divided character: a republican, he disliked America; sentimental about the family in his writings, he took up passionately with a young actress; usually generous, he cut off his impecunious children.
Claire Tomalin, author of Whitbread Book of the Year Samuel Pepys, paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius. Charles Dickens: A Life is the examination of Dickens we deserve.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作品曾經在全球蔚為一時的風潮的狄更斯，不但是勤奮的記者、十個孩子的模範父親、孜孜不倦的旅者、自由民主的鬥士，更是一位偉大的作家。在12歲時，為了家計，狄更斯就必須到工廠以減輕父母負擔。但長大後，出身貧寒的他卻因此更能理解同情老百姓的生活疾苦，終其一生以愛心關懷兒童，使社會底層的人民有所依靠。當他過世，全世界都為之哀悼，雖然有違他的生前遺囑，狄更斯隨後被後人安葬於西敏寺。
在本書中，作者克萊爾，藉由許多生動故事來幫助我們更了解狄更斯為人處事的生活態度。例如本書開頭，敘述1840年的倫敦，一位無辜被控告謀殺自己孩子的母親，即將被判死刑。但狄更斯卻以同理心、敏銳的觀察力、極具說服力的口才，解救這位在主人家產下嬰兒的貧窮女子。
狄更斯擅長描寫生活遭遇與社會底層的小人物，反映當時極為複雜的社會現象，使他筆下許多塑造出栩栩如生的故事角色，在英語世界成為永垂不朽的人物。(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：英國文壇譜寫傳記的最佳寫手
克萊爾‧托瑪林(Claire Tomalin)
克萊爾‧托瑪林2004年出版的《The Invisible Woman》
將由影星雷夫•范恩斯(Ralph Fiennes)自導自演於2012年發行關於狄更斯的傳記電影
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/10/ralph-fiennes-charles-dickens
克萊爾即將在10月推出的新作，更生動刻劃出這位永垂不朽的偉大作家
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQeXXiwUq3Q
About the Author/作者介绍： Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman then the Sunday Times before leaving to become a full-time writer. Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, won the Whitbread First Book Award, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies. The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens’ relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, won three major literary awards, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. Claire Tomalin is married to the writer Michael Frayn.
英國知名傳記作家克萊爾‧托瑪林(Claire Tomalin)即將出版全球文壇最偉大的作家之一查理斯．狄更斯(Charles Dickens)的傳記。
在成為全職作家之前的克萊爾，曾是英國週刊《新政治家》(New Statesman)和《星期日泰晤士報》(Sunday Times)的文學線編輯。她出版的第一本書《The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft》便即榮獲惠布瑞特首作小說獎(Whitbread First Novel Award)，此後出版的書包含: 珍奧斯汀（Jane Austen）、英國知名日記作家佩皮斯（Samuel Pepys）以及托馬斯．哈代（Thomas Hardy）等英國當代作家，使她成為英國文壇譜寫傳記的最佳寫手。
克萊爾2004年出版的《The Invisible Woman》講述狄更斯的地下情，更由影星雷夫•范恩斯 (Ralph Fiennes)將自導自演於2012年發行關於狄更斯的傳記電影。
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