明代万历年间的书,作者把所见所闻的一些骗例,汇集起来,细细解说,意在教人防骗。本书所讲的故事按照骗子的行为方式,分成二十四个门类,形象、真实地反映了明朝中叶后光怪陆离、五花八门的骗人勾当。《杜骗新书》,又名《骗经》(全名“鼎刻江湖历览杜骗新书”)、《防骗经》,总四卷二十四类八十八则,是笔记小说,小型百科式骗子故事集,古代第一部以骗子、骗术为主题的著作。作者以剖析江湖骗术的原理、手法为入口,以杜绝欺诈现象为编撰目标,以时事为底本,以写实的手法,总汇五花八门的骗局、骗术,并在每则故事末附按语评论,具有史料价值,足以作为晚明社会之侧写;而作为一部兼具公案及世情特色的笔记小说,阅读的过程既让人警醒也饶有兴味。
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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.
Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Twist travels to London, where he meets "The Artful Dodger," a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid–19th century.