查尔斯狄更斯是一位著名的英国小说家，被认为是维多利亚时代最伟大的英国小说家之一。 他的风格特点是对社会状况的严厉批判，以及对事件和人物的出色叙述和细致描绘的能力，是批判现实主义学说的创始人。
查尔斯·约翰·赫法姆·狄更斯（Charles John Huffam Dickens）于公元 1812 年出生于一个奢侈的父亲，他负债累累并被投入监狱，他的家庭状况在他之后恶化。 这促使年轻的狄更斯从小就开始工作，有时是工资工人，有时是律师办公室的雇员，然后是新闻线人，为报纸和杂志撰写有关当前人物和事件的简短摘录，以及就像在英格兰各地担任政治辩论者一样。
在童年时期，狄更斯受到英国小说先驱作品的影响。 如《亨利·菲尔丁》、《塞缪尔·理查森》、《丹尼尔·笛福》等，他从他们身上学到了描绘虚构人物的技巧和收紧情节的能力，他还阅读了许多其他文学名著，如《千人》和一夜”和这些“制造”，以及这些文本的作品。作家的文学和智力想象力及其创造力，但他的新闻工作增加了 - 同时 - 他的现实主义，这种结合使他能够带出对我们来说，一种被称为批判现实主义的新型文学叙事； 他准确地描述了现实，善于描绘超越现实的想象力，并表现出它的无能和内在的矛盾。
由于这些非凡的能力，狄更斯从小就成功并成名，这在他二十四岁时写的第一部作品《巴克的笔记》中就很明显。 这部小说在大众和评论家中取得了巨大的成功，随后他的精彩作品也随之而来，如：《孤身一人》和《大卫·科波菲尔》。 这位小说和文学天才使“卡尔·马克思”将他描述为最能揭示社会阶级不平等的英国作家； 狄更斯的小说恰如其分地表达了维多利亚时代社会存在的尖锐的社会矛盾，尤其是个人与专制腐败的社会道德秩序的斗争。
这位伟大的作家于公元 1870 年去世。
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth pdf 查尔斯·狄更斯
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Generations of readers have been enchanted by Dickens’s A Christmas Carol—the most cheerful ghost story ever written, and the unforgettable tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral regeneration. Written in just a few weeks, A Christmas Carol famously recounts the plight of Bob Cratchit, whose family finds joy even in poverty, and the transformation of his miserly boss Scrooge as he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. From Scrooge’s “Bah!” and “Humbug!” to Tiny Tim’s “God bless us every one!” A Christmas Carol shines with warmth, decency, kindness, humility, and the value of the holidays. But beneath its sentimental surface, A Christmas Carol offers another of Dickens’s sharply critical portraits of a brutal society, and an inspiring celebration of the possibility of spiritual, psychological, and social change. This new volume collects Dickens’s three most renowned “Christmas Books,” including The Chimes, a New Year’s tale, and The Cricket on the Hearth, whose eponymous creature remains silent during sorrow and chirps amid happiness.
Katharine Kroeber Wiley, the daughter of a scholar and a sculptor, has a degree in English Literature from Occidental College. Her work has appeared in Boundary Two and the recent book, Lore of the Dolphin. She is currently working on a book on Victorian Christmas writings.