社会底层善良的人在挣扎,严酷的现实中仍然透露着明亮的曙光。
The book was written in late 1844, during Dickens' year-long visit to Italy. The chimes are old bells in the church on whose steps Trotty Veck plies his trade. The book is divided into four parts named "quarters", after the quarter chimes of a striking clock.
《教堂钟声》是查尔斯·狄更斯的一部短篇小说,出版于1844年。该书是查尔斯“圣诞丛书”系列。小说分为四部分,每一部分以教堂钟声开始。小说的主人公托比是一个勤杂工,他天天待在教堂外面,只盼着能替人跑个腿,赚几便士。他已年届六十,身材瘦弱,但他一直认为自己强壮而有力量,而且一直保持乐观。 某个寒冷的中午,他的女儿,美丽善良的梅格给他送来了午餐,并向他道出了英俊健壮的小伙子理查德向她求婚的事情,正在这时,富人老爷们出现了,他们声称要取缔穷人结婚,取缔穷人生孩子,取缔一切……托比心灰意冷,他离开家,来到教堂,一个人爬到钟塔的顶层,在一片黑暗和恐惧中晕了过去。等他醒来,他发现钟塔里到处是幽灵和精怪,他才意识到自己早已在九年前爬钟塔的时候就失足摔落下去死了。他跟着幽灵看到了人世百态,看到了穷人的艰辛,看到了富人的伪善,看到了女儿苦苦维持得艰难困苦的生活,最后,女儿在绝望中抱着孩子,朝波涛汹涌的河流走去。托小跑绝望得大喊出来“救救她!”……
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.
- CHAPTER I-First Quarter.
- CHAPTER II-The Second Quarter.
- CHAPTER III-Third Quarter.
- CHAPTER IV-Fourth Quarter.
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