急求david copperfield的英文内容简介（完整篇）及英文评论

急求david copperfield的英文内容简介（完整篇）及英文评论

总括:
In this novel, Dickens describes one boy growing up in a world which is by turns magical, fearful and grimly realistic. In a book which is part autobiographical, the novelist transmutes his life-experience into a series of comic and sentimental adventures.
速成内容简介:
http://www.ellopos.net/dickens/copper_summary.html
评论:
David Copperfield' does not, of course, need recommendation from me or anyone else. Re-reading this huge, rambling, digressive novel though, it strikes me how much it is marred by Dickens' repressed attitude to sexuality - he is the very embodiment of stereotypically Victorian attitudes. One result of this is the ludicrously overdrawn subplot involving little Em'ly. No doubt the consequences of a pre-marital affair could be serious then for a working class girl, but when Dickens says early on that she would better have died in childhood you can only react with incredulity. Later, as George Orwell observed, Uriah Heep is vituperated mainly because he has the audacity to want to marry `above himself'. Conversely no woman of marriageable age is allowed a spark of independence or what was then called `boldness'. The three principal women in David's life are all, to quote Blackadder, wetter than a haddock's bathing costume.
If you've never read this book then you should certainly read it - Micawber is worth the price of admission by himself - but you need lots of time, and lots of patience. If you've read it before you may find yourself, like me, skipping through large chunks.
Although it is true that Dickens says in twenty words thing that could be expressed just as clearly in only five, there can be no arguing that he is an expert in manipulating his reader’s feelings. “David Copperfield”, telling the story of his life, shows this skill of his writer really well. This book will make you cry in one chapter and laugh out loud in the next one. Dickens will also make his reader feel about his characters just as he wants you to feel about them. You’ll never forget the cruel Murdstones, “ ‘umble” Uriah Heep, angel-like Agnes and adorable though rather silly Dora. In addition to these memorable characters, I think all its readers will agree that “David Copperfield” is a complete work in every sense and I’m sure many of them will count it among their favourites.
Written in the first person, like "Great Expectations", the early part of the book is regarded as highly autobiographical. The range of styles, and the sweep of the plot, though, dazzles throughout.
True, the Little Emily stuff may be too melodramatic for today, but the characters here are Dickens at his very best. The odious Heep, the oh-so-brilliant Steerforth and the fumbling Mr Micawber.
On one level, yes they are caricatures, but I have met people just like Mr Heep, and not too far from Steerforth.
And when my boss denied me a raise in my salary the other day, claiming that were it down to her, she would certainly be looking to do it, but that her hands were tied by the senior management, I cast my mind straight back to David Copperfield trying to get a raise out of Spenlow and Jorkins. Timeless.
For a Dickens, it's a middling size of book, so it'll take time, but it won't wipe out a month, like "Little Dorrit", say.
Read this. Comic and tragic at turns, it is staggeringly brilliant writing.
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