《霧都孤兒》是百靈鳥英文經(jīng)典系列的其中一本，以霧都倫敦為背景，講述了一個(gè)孤兒悲慘的身世及遭遇，主人公奧立弗在孤兒院長大，經(jīng)歷學(xué)徒生涯，艱苦逃難，誤入賊窩，又被迫與狠毒的兇徒為伍，歷盡無數(shù)辛酸，最后在善良人的幫助下，查明身世并獲得了幸福。小說描寫了善與惡、美與丑、正義與邪惡的斗爭，贊揚(yáng)了人們天性中的正直和善良，也揭露抨擊了當(dāng)時(shí)英國慈善機(jī)構(gòu)的虛偽和治安警察的專橫。同時(shí)，作品又帶有濃厚的浪漫主義情調(diào)，充滿著人道主義情懷。
查爾斯•狄更斯（Charles Dickens，1812—1870），十九世紀(jì)英國現(xiàn)實(shí)主義作家。他主要描寫生活在英國社會(huì)底層人的生活，揭露上層社會(huì)和資產(chǎn)階級(jí)的虛偽、貪婪，深刻反映了當(dāng)時(shí)英國復(fù)雜的社會(huì)現(xiàn)實(shí)，同時(shí)也以理想主義和浪漫主義情懷謳歌了人性的真善美。他以十四部巨著的突出成就開創(chuàng)了現(xiàn)實(shí)主義新時(shí)期，被后世尊為批判現(xiàn)實(shí)主義杰出的代表、諷刺巨匠、語言大師，代表作有《雙城記》《大衛(wèi)•科波菲爾》《小杜麗》《遠(yuǎn)大前程》《霧都孤兒》《艱難時(shí)世》《荒涼山莊》等。
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I 001
CHAPTER II 005
CHAPTER III 020
CHAPTER IV 032
CHAPTER V 042
CHAPTER VI 057
CHAPTER VII 064
CHAPTER 073
CHAPTER IX 085
CHAPTER X 094
CHAPTER I
Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born; and
of the circumstances attending his birth
Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small—to wit, a workhouse and in this workhouse was born, on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all: in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography extant in the literature of any age or country.
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