THE FINAL RECOLLECTIONS OF CHARLES DICKENS: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 08900014B67580
English Summary/英文概要： A work of historical fiction about the great writer Charles Dickens, in the form of a literary final testament by Dickens himself, about an episode in which an unconsummated love affair with a mysterious woman, Amanda Wingate, involved Dickens in the pursuit of a criminal in 1850s and 1860s London. Now we are in England, in 1870. His health failing, his most important work all but done, Charles Dickens is readying for the final bed. But there is one more story that he must tell. The novel blends a historically-accurate telling of Dickens’ life with a gripping portrait of betrayal, murder, obsession, and love. It is the story of Dickens coming of age, caught between the worlds of England’s ruling elite and the seamy underside of London society. A full range of Dickensian characters inhabit Thomas Hauser’s novel: Dickens himself. The hauntingly beautiful Amanda Wingate. Geoffrey Wingate, Amanda’s scheming financial-swindler husband. Florence Spriggs, a mutilated prostitute whose once-lovely face has been carved into a mask of horror. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, the book captures Dickens’ voice, London, and the tenor of the times.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 英格兰1870年：他的健康状况每况愈下，他最重要的作品都已经完成了，查尔斯•狄更斯已经准备好入土为安。他已经没有更多的故事可以述说了。
《查尔斯•狄更斯最后的回忆》真实地再现了狄更斯生活中关于背叛，谋杀，堕落，困扰和爱情的迷人画卷。这是一部关于狄更斯成长的礼赞，他生逢英格兰统治精英和伦敦底层社会丑陋一面的黄金时代。小说全面灵动再现了狄更斯笔下的故事人物：绝代佳丽阿曼达•温盖特；杰弗里•温盖特，阿曼达诡计多端的金融骗子丈夫；和佛罗伦萨•斯普里格斯，一位曾经拥有着可爱脸庞，戴着可怕面具的残缺妓女。
细致入微的研究，和详细地细述，《查尔斯•狄更斯最后的回忆》再现了不确定时代下伦敦城内，那位伟大的作者。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：在查尔斯•狄更斯成为英国著名的小说家之前，他曾是一位默默奋斗的伦敦记者，受到这座城市底层社会中贫困，疾病，饥饿和绝望的启发，狄更斯用笔揭示了上层富有社会的冷漠和傲慢。这是一部来自高产作家豪瑟关于狄更斯的优美历史传记小说。当1870年，狄更斯的健康情况日趋严重之时，他追忆了自己早年悲苦的童年，早期的写作生涯，美好的婚姻生活，和日后的名声鹊起，然而故事的重心，侧重于1836年，他由编辑乔治•荷加斯介绍给当时富商，杰弗里•温盖特。在荷加斯的眷顾下，富商温盖特鼓励狄更斯撰写一些关于他，和他所投资的《纪事晚报》的文章，以求达到吸引读者的读者和提升自己报业销量的双重目的。温盖特是希望能够利用这位年轻的，天真的记者来招徕富有的客户。狄更斯的初步调查揭示了更多温盖特的商业秘密，期货总包括他曾经谋杀过一个男人的丑闻。出于好奇，狄更斯进一步地深入调查，揭开了伦敦上流社会那冷血的谋杀和杀戮，以及下层社会女性的出卖肉体和贵族妇女的真实一面。狄更斯的调查引发了伦敦警方的对温盖特的怀疑，却只发现更为猖獗的腐败现象。但他的确在埃尔斯沃思警察局找看到了一位正直的警官，这二人携手共同揭露了一个狡诈的骗子和邪恶的凶手的真面目。…Before Charles Dickens became a famous British novelist he was a struggling London journalist, inspired by the poverty, disease, hunger, and despair of the city’s lower classes, and exposed to the arrogance and indifference of the rich. This beautifully crafted historical novel by the prolific Hauser (Waiting for Carver Boyd) is a fictional autobiography of Dickens. Speaking from 1870 when his health is failing, he recounts his miserable childhood, early writing career, loveless marriage, and later fame. The core of the story, however, focuses on the year 1836, when he is introduced by his editor, George Hogarth, to a wealthy financier, Geoffrey Wingate. With Hogarth’s blessing, Wingate encourages Dickens to write about him and his investment business in the Evening Chronicle, for the dual purpose of attracting readers and advancing Wingate’s business interests. Wingate is hoping to use the young, naïve journalist to lure rich clients. Dickens’s initial inquiries reveal much about Wingate’s business, including a rumor that he once killed a man. Intrigued, Dickens investigates further, uncovering cold-blooded murder and mutilation, as well as London’s seamy underworld of prostitution and the kept women of aristocrats. Dickens takes his suspicions of Wingate’s crimes to the police, only to find rampant corruption. But he does find an honest policeman in Inspector Ellsworth of the Metropolitan Police Force, a man of integrity and grit who believes Dickens, and the two men work tirelessly to unmask a clever swindler and vicious killer. Complications arise when Dickens falls hopelessly in love with Amanda, Wingate’s wife—their unfulfilled love affair haunts Dickens for the rest of his life. Hauser delivers a crisp, colorful narrative with vivid pictures of London’s rich and poor, as well as a suspenseful, perilous drama in the style of Dickens. (Nov.)
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This beautifully crafted historical novel by the prolific Hauser is a fictional autobiography of Dickens…Hauser delivers a crisp, colorful narrative with vivid pictures of London’s rich and poor, as well as a suspenseful, perilous
About the Author/作者介绍： 托马斯-豪瑟，美国作家。
1978年，他发表了自己的第一部传记《查尔斯•霍曼的死刑》。霍曼的妻子，乔伊斯和父亲，艾德•霍曼共同合作帮助豪瑟描述了查尔斯的人生，以及他的家人如何寻求查尔斯在智利的真实经历。这部作品让豪瑟获得了普利策奖的提名，并被著名导演科斯塔卡瓦拉斯改编成《失踪》搬上银幕。1981年，豪瑟发表了一部小说，《阿什沃斯和帕尔梅》，故事发生在一家虚构的法律事务所，这部作品的创作灵感来源于作者在1970年，从哥伦比亚法学院毕业后，在1971年至1977年在Cravath, Swaine & Moore 的助理工作经历。
1991年，他因其撰写的《穆罕默德•阿里的传记》，而授予威廉•希尔体育年度最佳书奖。
Thomas Hauser is the author of forty-seven books on subjects ranging from professional boxing to Beethoven. His debut book Missing was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the National Book Award and was the basis for the Academy-Award-winning film starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. He wrote Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times – the definitive biography of the most famous man on earth – which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Hauser has also written extensively about the sport and business of professional boxing and has published articles in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications. He is currently a consultant to HBO and lives in Manhattan.
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World English language, Counterpoint Press, 2015
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