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The Third Period Theme: showing underlying tone of bitterness, loss of hope for English bourgeois society. Main works Dickens：Man and Writer Features of his works His literary creation literary achievements Main works 《荒凉山庄》Bleak House—1852年-1853年 《艰难时世》Hard Times—1854年 《小杜丽》Little Dorrit—1855年-1857年 《双城记 》A Tale of Two Cities —1859年 《远大前程》Great Expectations—1860年-1861年 《我们共同的朋友》Our Mutual Friend—1864年-1865年 《艾德温·德鲁德之谜》The Mystery of Edwin Drood—未完成，1870年 Bleak House Theme: Satire the abuses of English courts. The spontaneous combustion of “Lord Chancellor” is symbolic of Dickens realization of the rottenness of Victorian capitalism and his conviction that it would be destroyed by its own evil. The plot is built around the lawsuit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce over the inheritance of a family fortune, which has dragged on for many generations, setting relatives quarreling with one another, driving some of them to ruin and others to suicide, while the lawyers engaged in it obtain large fees from the case. In the end it turns out that the law costs have swallowed up the entire estate, so that there is no more need nor possibility for the both sides of disputants to go on with the case. 《荒凉山庄》讽刺英国古老的“大法官庭”（Chancery）的作风，是司法体制邪恶、无能的象征。小说描写了一件争夺遗产的诉讼案，由于司法人员从中营私、徇讦，竟使得案情拖延20年。在一个偶然机会里，男爵夫人的私生女艾瑟·萨莫森被那一群律师得知，于是追根究柢的律师借此威胁男爵夫人，甚至整死一名流浪少年，男爵夫人被迫离家出走，死于一场暴风雪。其中一名律师被他所利用的人杀害。这20年期间申诉者居住在荒凉山庄，主人约翰·詹狄士（John Jarndyce）成为一对表兄妹的监护人，等待法官做最后的判决，最后整笔遗产正好全数支付有关的法律诉讼费用，跟诉讼案有关的人死的死，发疯的发疯. Hard Times Theme: a fierce attract on the bourgeois system of education and ethics and on utilitarianism. The novel is set in the industrial town of Coketown, the soulless Gradgind and the heartless factory owner Bounderby are followers of the utilitarian Manchester school. Gradgind puts his principle of education into practice in his own family. The main plot is that Louise and Tom ,after being educated by their fathers “reasonable ”system, end in pathetic results--Louise escape from her