作者：Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age.His works are intended to expose and criticize all the povrty,injustice,hypocrisy and corruptness of the 19th-century England,particularly London.All his works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.
作品：In this novel,Dickens describes one boy growing up in a world which is by turns magical,fearful and grimly realistic.In a book which is part autobiographical,the novelist transmutes his life-experience into a series of comic and sentimental adventures.