《Dealings With The Firm Of Dombey And Son V1》是一本圖書，作者是Dickens, Charles
基本介紹
- 外文名：Dealings With The Firm Of Dombey And Son V1
- 作者：Dickens, Charles
- 出版時間：2008年6月
- 頁數：360 頁
- ISBN：9781436819336
- 定價：36.10 美元
內容簡介
DOMBEY AND SON -- CHARLES DICKENS BORN I S I 2-DIED I 870 -- Editors y o t e Streets, their throngs, and their by-ways were always inspirations to Dickens. The lack of them handicapped him when he began writing Dombey and Son while living in Switzerland. Referring to the absence of streets and numbers of jigures, he told Forster The toil and labour of writing day after day with...(展開全部) DOMBEY AND SON -- CHARLES DICKENS BORN I S I 2-DIED I 870 -- Editors y o t e Streets, their throngs, and their by-ways were always inspirations to Dickens. The lack of them handicapped him when he began writing Dombey and Son while living in Switzerland. Referring to the absence of streets and numbers of jigures, he told Forster The toil and labour of writing day after day without that magic lantern is IMMENSE . . . My figures seem disposed to stagnate without crowds about them. To supply what was wanted he moved to Paris and he finished the story in England. When published in 1846-7 the work was a great success, and the sales soared, while eople wept and laughed over it. The authors strong belief was that Dombey would be remembered as among the best of his books. The forecast has hardly been borne out. It is the longest, but not the fullest, of his novels and it is one of those in which the secondary characters take predominence. The original of Mrs. Pipchin was Mrs. Roylance, of Little College Street, Camden Town, with whom he lodged when, as a boy, he was employed in a blacking warehouse. Doctor Blimber was Doctor Everard, a pedagogue of Brighton. Polly Toodle was a Mrs. Hayes of Manchester, who knew the author as a boy. Rather more superficial is the identijcation of Mrs. Skewton and her daughter with a Mrs. Campbell of Lea nington, and her daughter-wlzo was beautqul. So i s fkat of Dolnbey with Thomas Chapman, Dickenss publisher. Carker is said to be drawn, at a zy rate exteriorly, from a poor fellow, probably mad, who lived in the Oxford Road, which he haunte
