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- Author: Charles Dickens
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- Pages : 358
The Manuscript of Great Expectations
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- Author: Charles Dickens
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN: 1108034403
- Category : Literary Collections
- Languages : en
- Pages : 287
The novels of Charles Dickens (1812-70), with their inimitable energy and their comic, tragic and grotesque characters, are still widely read, and reworked for film and television. Dickens himself had the original manuscripts of his works bound and presented them to his friends. That of Great Expectations was given to Chauncy Hare Townshend, with whom Dickens shared an interest in mesmerism and the occult. Townshend bequeathed his library (including the manuscript), together with collections of paintings and objects, to the Wisbech and Fenland Museum in 1868. The manuscript has been newly photographed and is here reproduced in colour and at actual size. The Cambridge Library Collection is also reissuing the serialised version of Great Expectations (1860-1) and the first book edition (1861, in three volumes). Dickens scholars and enthusiasts can now study the work-in-progress, with all its deletions and revisions, alongside the first two published versions.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
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Great Expectations
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- Pages : 640
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times. Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style, and is the story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood. The story can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people. The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840.
Robinson Crusoe : Om Illustrated Classics
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- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Publisher: Om Books International
- ISBN: 9381607745
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- Languages : en
- Pages : 240
Cast away! When young Robinson Crusoe refuted his father’s wishes, choosing to be an adventurer at sea rather than studying Law, little did he realise that life as he knew it, would change forever. Washed up on a deserted island after a violent storm at sea, Robinson is left all alone with the ship’s dog and a few supplies. Will Robinson Crusoe be able to survive on the Island? Were all these years of toil and caution in vain? Who is the savage, Friday? Will he help Crusoe or finish him? Read it all in the fascinating pages of this eternal classic.
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The Half-Caste
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- Author: Dinah Mulock Craik
- Publisher: Broadview Press
- ISBN: 1460405927
- Category : Fiction
- Languages : en
- Pages : 187
Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Half-Caste concerns the coming-of-age of its title character, the mixed-race Zillah Le Poer, daughter of an English merchant and an Indian princess. Sent back to England as a young girl, Zillah has no knowledge that she is an heiress. She lives with her uncle Le Poer, his wife, and two daughters, and is treated as little more than a servant in the household. Zillah’s situation is gradually improved when Cassandra Pryor is employed as a governess to the Le Poer daughters and takes an interest in the mysterious “cousin.” Craik explores issues of gender, race, and empire in the Victorian period in this compact and gripping novella. Along with a newly-annotated text, this Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that discusses Craik’s involvement with contemporary racial and imperialist attitudes, her place within the broader genre of Anglo-Indian fiction, and the importance of Zillah Le Poer as a positive symbol of empire. The edition is also enriched with relevant contemporary contextual material, including Dinah Mulock Craik’s writing on gender and female employment, British views on the biracial Eurasian community in India, and writings on the Victorian governess.
Great Expectations
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- Author: Charles Dickens
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- ISBN: 9781530144679
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- Languages : en
- Pages : 98
This unabridged edition contains the endings of 1861 and 1868. Printed on large size (8.5x11 inches, 21.59 x 27.94 cm) cream paper with small type (9-point) and three column format. Great Expectations is set among marshes in Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s. The novel depicts the personal development of Philip Pirrip, an orphan nicknamed Pip. It has a cast of other characters who have entered popular culture: the bitter and excentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful Estella, the generous blacksmith Joe Gargery and Abel Magwitch, the very human convict. Pip lives with his older short-tempered sister, Georgiana Maria, and her husband, Joe. One day, while visiting the graves of his mother, father and siblings, Pip, who is about seven years old, encounters the escaped convict Magwitch. Soon after, he visits the mysterious Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter, Estella. Both events will impact his later life. Confronted with changes and desires, Pip is eager to grow, learn and achieve even what seems hopelessly beyond his reach... Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's last completed novel, a work of his artistic maturity and a classic of Victorian literature. Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language. -John Irving
