DR JAMES DARKE, a retired teacher of literature who collects first editions of Dickens, has walled himself off from the world. For a long stretch of this unusual first novel, the reason is hinted at, but not revealed. It is an extreme reaction to the pain of loss, the reader learns. Darke retreats and broods, cutting off his only daughter, Lucy.
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机译:退休的文学老师,詹姆斯·达克博士(DR JAMES DARKE)收集了狄更斯的第一版,他使自己与世隔绝。对于这部非同寻常的第一部小说,在很长的一段时期里,人们一直在暗示原因,但并未透露。读者了解到,这是对损失痛苦的一种极端反应。达克退缩和沉思,切断了他唯一的女儿露西。
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