雾都孤儿(英文版) [平装]

《雾都孤儿(英文版)》是作者的第一部社会小说，年轻的狄更斯以现实派画家威廉-荷加斯为榜样，抱着改造社会、抗议社会的抱负，描写一个沦于底层的孤儿奥利弗的悲惨遭遇。奥利弗自幼遭到遗弃，在孤儿院长大，因不堪棺材店老板的欺压，逃到伦敦，不幸落入狠毒的窃贼团伙首领费金之于，被训练成扒手。一次上街行窃，因误会而被警察抓获，释放后由好心的绅士布朗洛所收养。此后又再次落入贼手，在心地善良的女扒手南希的协助下终于逃出贼窝，碰巧遇到自己的姨妈罗斯小姐，并找回本应由他继承的遗产。
小说以孤儿奥利弗为线索，广泛地展示了社会底层人们的生活，以及广大以奥利弗、南希、罗斯为代表的善良人们的美好品喷，他们虽生活不幸，但都保持着美好的天性，给那个苦难深重、黑暗重重的雾都伦敦增添了些许亮色，洋溢着深厚的人道主义光辉。

《雾都孤儿(英文版)》：Oliver Twist（1838）is Charles Dickens'secondnovel.The book was originally published inBentley's Miscellany as a serial，in monthly installments that began appearing in themonth of February 1837 and continued throughApril 1839，originally intended to form part ofDickens’serial The Mudfog Papers.George Cruik shank provided one steel etching per month to is ustrate each installment.Oliver Twist is the first novel in the English language to center throughout on a child protagonist and is also notable for Dickens'unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives.The book’S subtitle，The ParishBoy's Progress，alludes to Bunyan’s TheHlgrim'sProgress andalsoto apairofpopular18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth，A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.
AMONG other public buildings in a certain town，which for many reasons it will be prudent tO refrain from mentioning.and to which 1will assign no fictitious name，there is one anciently common tO mosttowns，great or small：tO wit，a workhouse；and in this workhouse wasborn；on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat，inasmuch as it can be 0f no possible consequence to the reader,inthis stage of the business at a11 events；the item of mortality whosename is prefixed to the head of this chapten For a 10ng time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow andtrouble，by the parish surgeon，it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive tO bearany name at all；in which case it is somewhatmore than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared；or,if they had，that being comprised within a couple of pages，they wouldhave possessed the inestimable merit of beingthe most concise and faithful specimen of biograph$extant in the literature of any age or country.