David Copperfield-大卫 科波菲尔

作者：Charles Dickens

书名：David Copperfield《大卫 科波菲尔》

中文简介：《块肉余生录》（David Copperfield）又译名“大卫·科波菲尔”，是19世纪英国批判现实主义作家查尔斯·狄更斯的第八部重要作品，全名是《布伦德斯通贫民窟的大卫·科波菲尔之个人历史、历险、经历和观察（他从来没想以任何方式出版）》，写于1848—1850年。和他的其它作品一样，故事以连载的方式刊登，用时两年。在这部带有自传性质的小说里，狄更斯藉“大卫自身的历史和经验”，从某些方面回顾和总结了自己的生活道路，表现出他的人生态度、道德理想。作品所展示的绘声绘色、丰富多彩的生活画面，具有鲜明深刻的时代特点。在1867年版中，狄更斯写到：“和许多溺爱的父母一样，我也有一个心中最喜爱的孩子，他的名字叫大卫·科波菲尔。”

英文简介： David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. This edition uses the text of the first volume publication of 1850, and includes updated suggestions for further reading, original illustrations by 'Phiz', a revised chronology and expanded notes. In his new introduction, Jeremy Tambling discusses the novel's autobiographical elements, and its central themes of memory and identity.