润千秋的回答：Charles Dickens Born: 7 February 1812 Birthplace: Portsmouth, England Died: 9 June 1870 Best Known As: The author of A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and other hit novels of 19th-century England. Dickens grew up in poverty, and it shows in his writing: he is known for his orphans and urchins, rogues, shopkeepers, stuffed shirts, widows, and other colorful characters pulled from the sooty streets of London. An all-around workhorse, Dickens edited a monthly magazine, wrote novels, gave public readings and came out with a Christmas story every year. His novels were often published first in serial form -- as chapter-by-chapter monthly installments in magazines of the day. Among his major works are Oliver Twist (completed 1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), David Copperfield (1850), the historical drama A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1861). His 1843 tale A Christmas Carol featured the grouchy miser Ebenezer Scrooge and the sickly tot Tiny Tim. It remains a popular holiday classic and perhaps his most famous tale. Dickens used the pen name Boz early in his career, and his first publication was the short story collection Sketches By Boz (1836)... Oliver Twist was the basis for the stage musical Oliver!; the show won the Tony Award for best musical in 1963, and a 1968 movie version (with Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger) won the Academy Award for best picture... Dickens married the former Catherine Hogarth in 1836. They had 10 children, but their marriage was often tense, and they separated in 1858... He was buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, near Geoffrey Chaucer and other fellow writers. 柳琳琳的回答：Charles Dickens Born: 7 February 1812 Birthplace: Portsmouth, England Died: 9 June 1870 Best Known As: The author of A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and other hit novels of 19th-century England. Dickens grew up in poverty, and it shows in his writing: he is known for his orphans and urchins, rogues, shopkeepers, stuffed shirts, widows, and other colorful characters pulled from the sooty streets of London. An all-around workhorse, Dickens edited a monthly magazine, wrote novels, gave public readings and came out with a Christmas story every year. His novels were often published first in serial form -- as chapter-by-chapter monthly installments in magazines of the day. Among his major works are Oliver Twist (completed 1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), David Copperfield (1850), the historical drama A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1861). His 1843 tale A Christmas Carol featured the grouchy miser Ebenezer Scrooge and the sickly tot Tiny Tim. It remains a popular holiday classic and perhaps his most famous tale. Dickens used the pen name Boz early in his career, and his first publication was the short story collection Sketches By Boz (1836)... Oliver Twist was the basis for the stage musical Oliver!; the show won the Tony Award for best musical in 1963, and a 1968 movie version (with Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger) won the Academy Award for best picture... Dickens married the former Catherine Hogarth in 1836. They had 10 children, but their marriage was often tense, and they separated in 1858... He was buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, near Geoffrey Chaucer and other fellow writers. 月亮星的回答：one of dickens most enduringly popular stories is oliver twist, an early work published 1837-8. like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of tolite society. oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by bumble, a parish council official or eadle the story follows oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to london. here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of fagin that includes the brutal thief bill sikes, the famous artful dodger and nancy, bill whore. oliver is rescued by the intervention of a benefactor - mr brownlow - but the mysterious monks gets the gang to kidnap the boy again. nancy intervenes but is murdered viciously by sikes after she has showed some redeeming qualities and has discovered monk sinister intention. the story closes happily and with justice for bumble and the cruel monks who has hidden the truth of oliver parentage out of malice. accusations were made that the book glamorised crime (like the ewgate group of the period) but dickens wisely disassociated himself from criminal romances. his achievement was in fact in presenting the underworld and problems of poverty to the well-off in a way rarely attempted previously. |
