Celebrated Translations -- David Copperfield (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: (English) Charles Dickens (Dickens, C.), translated by Song Zhaolin
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Publishing Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Dickens is the greatest novelist of 19th-century Britain, a world-famous realist critic, and is revered by later generations as a beacon calling people back to laughter and kindness. Marx praised him, along with Sacre and others, as one of Britain's outstanding novelists. David Copperfield is Dickens' most important representative work, a semi-autobiographical novel that he poured his heart into and which spans the longest length. It was serialized from May 1849 to November 1850. This novel holds a special place in Dickens' entire body of work, more clearly reflecting the author's creative thoughts and artistic style. It is a magnificent crystallization of his personal experiences, observations, and rich imagination. In the preface to this book, Dickens once wrote: "Of all my works, I love this one the most... It is my darling child." It was praised by British writer Somerset Maugham as a "truly great literary work." It is also one of the "100 outstanding English novels of the 20th century" recommended by American literary critics. David Copperfield is Dickens' most important and heart-felt, longest semi-autobiographical work, his darling child, and was once hailed by Leo Tolstoy as "one of the best British novels." It is one of the earliest Western classical masterpieces introduced to China. The character "Micawber" from the novel has now been included as a word in ordinary English dictionaries. This book is one of the "masterpieces translated by masters," accompanied by two types of illustrations: one is a set of color illustrations before the main text, mostly precious images about the author, the work, and the historical background; the other is a set of black-and-white illustrations drawn based on the plot of the work. Through these illustrations, readers are not only immersed in a warm and relaxed reading atmosphere but also gain a comprehensive and vivid understanding of the rich connotations of world literary masterpieces. It also includes a character list of the main characters, a timeline of the author's life, and other content. Combined with the translator's precise annotations, it helps readers overcome reading obstacles and learn related knowledge, enabling them to read world literary masterpieces comprehensively, deeply, and efficiently.