作者简介：查尔斯•狄更斯 英国小说家，出生于海军小职员家庭，10岁时全家被迫迁入负债者监狱，11岁就承担起繁重的家务劳动。曾在皮鞋作坊当学徒，16岁时在律师事务所当缮写员，后担任报社采访记者。他只上过几年学，全靠刻苦自学和艰辛劳动成为知名作家。 他生活在英国由半封建社会向工业资本主义社...
In which Timely Provision is made for an Emergency that will sometimes arise in the best-regulated Families. 在管理得极好的家庭中有时是会发生这种突然事件的。 'I shall ne...
As the husband did nothing but chuckle and grin, and continually draw his right hand across his mouth, moistening the palm, Mrs Toodle, after nudging ...
It then appeared that she had used the word, not in its legal or business acceptation, when it merely expresses an individual, but as a noun of multit...
Chapter One The Boy Who Lived Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very m...
Though he was soon satisfied that he had dismissed the idea as romantic and unlikely though possible, there was no denying he could not help pursuing ...
In which Mr Dombey, as a Man and a Father, is seen at the Head of the Home Department. The funeral of the deceased lady having been 'performed to ...
With a quick perception that it was intended to relate to what she had asked, little Florence laid aside the bonnet she had held in her hand until now...
And she was right. The last time he had seen his slighted child, there had been that in the sad embrace between her and her dying mother, which was at...
In which some more First Appearances are made on the Stage of these Adventures. Though the offices of Dombey and Son were within the liberties of the ...