Charles Dickens.ppt

Charles Dickens A brief biography Main works Main works continued A Tale of Two CitiesThemes Narrator Point of view Rising action Climax Falling action * * 1812-1870 Those lonely, hungry days in his childhood inflicted so early in life upon such a sensitive boy had left an ineradicable bitter remembrance in the remainder of his life. To this experience, may evidently be traced no small part of the intense sympathy with the oppressed poor, especially with helpless children, which is so prominent in his novel. Dickenss birthplace at No.1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, a district on the outskirts of Portsmouth. John Dickens (1785/6-1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (1789-1863), Charles Dickenss parents. Group portrait of Charles Dickens, his wife, Catherine (center), and her younger sister Georgina, engraved by Edward Stodart after the 1843 pencil drawing by Daniel Maclise. There can be no question of the importance of Dickens as a human event in history; a sort of conflagration and transfiguration in the very heart of what is called the conventional Victorian era; a naked flame of mere natural genius, breaking out in a man without culture, without tradition, without help from historic religions or philosophies or from the great foreign schools; and revealing a light that never was on sea or land, if only in the long fantastic shadows that it threw from common things. --G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: His Life (from the 14th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1929) 1836 The Pickwick Papers 《匹克维克外传》 1837-1839 Oliver Twist 《雾都孤儿》 1840－1841 The Old Curiosity Shop 《老古玩店》 1843 A Christmas Carol 《圣诞颂 歌》 1846－1848 Dombey and Son 《董贝父子》 A note on serial publication, which Dickens exploited so brilliantly throughout his career, beginning with The Pickwick Papers (No. 4, published in July 1836). A fragment of Dickenss original manuscript of The Pickwick Papers, coming from chapter 28, the famous Good-humoured Christmas Chapter set at Dingley Dell, which was first publ