Charles Dickens's Great Expectations

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations

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  • Author: Dr Mary Hammond
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1409425878
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

As Mary Hammond observes in her wide-ranging publishing history of the novel, Great Expectations' life has extended far beyond the literary Anglophone world and owes a great deal to a particular moment in the mid-Victorian publishing industry. Her book features an exhaustive survey of the novel's different appearances in serial, book and dramatic form and is enhanced by appendices with archival information, contemporary reviews and a comprehensive bibliography of editions and adaptations.


Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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  • Author: Charles Dickens
  • Publisher:
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 564

One of the finest novels by iconic British author Charles Dickens, this Victorian tale follows the good-natured orphan Pip as he makes his way through life. As a boy, Pip crosses paths with a convict named Magwitch, a man who will heavily influence Pip’s adulthood. Meanwhile, the earnest young man falls for the beautiful Estella, the adoptive daughter of the affluent and eccentric Miss Havisham. Widely considered to be Dickens's last great book, the story is steeped in romance and features the writer's familiar themes of crime, punishment, and societal struggle.


Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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  • Author: Charles Dickens
  • Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
  • ISBN: 0307758370
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 115

One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide. Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist’s bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions. This edition includes Dickens’s original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.


Lamda

Lamda

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  • Author: Charles John Huffam Dickens
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9789072162120
  • Category :
  • Languages : nl
  • Pages : 144

Toneelbewerking van de roman van de Britse schrijver waarin een jonge wees een gevluchte misdadiger helpt. Met woordverklaringen in het Nederlands.


Mister Pip

Mister Pip

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  • Author: Lloyd Jones
  • Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
  • ISBN: 1459616359
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Matilda attends the school set up by Mr Watts, the only white man on the island. By his own admission he's not much of a teacher and proceeds to educate the children by reading them Great Expectations. Matilda falls in love with the novel, strongly identifying with Pip. The promise of the next chapter is what keeps her going; Pip's story protects her from the horror of what is happening around her - helicopters menacing the skies above the village and rebel raids on the ground. When the rebels visit the village searching for any remaining men to join their cause, they discover the name Pip written in the sand and instigate a search for him. When Pip can't be found the soldiers destroy the book. Mr Watts then encourages the children to retell the story from their memories. Then when the rebels invade the village, the teacher tells them a story which lasts seven nights, about a boy named Pip, and a convict . . .


Havisham

Havisham

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  • Author: Ronald Frame
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 1250037271
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

Catherine Havisham was born into privilege. Handsome, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer, and lives in luxury in Satis House. But she is never far from the smell of hops and the arresting letters on the brewhouse wall -- Havisham. A reminder of all she owes to the family name and the family business.


Great Books

Great Books

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  • Author: David Denby
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1439127158
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 518

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* “A lively adventure of the mind...The tone of the prose...is one of unqualified enthusiasm: energy, vigor, intellectual curiosity, and what might be called an ecstasy of imaginative journalism.” —The New York Times Book Review At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books" -- that are now at the heart of the culture wars. In Great Books, he leads us on a glorious tour, a rediscovery and celebration of such authors as Homer and Boccaccio, Locke and Nietzsche. Conrad and Woolf. The resulting personal odyssey is an engaging blend of self-discovery, cultural commentary, reporting, criticism, and autobiography -- an inspiration for anyone in love with the written word.


Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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  • Author: Charles Dickens
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  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 590

Great Expectations was first published as a weekly serial in All the Year Round, December 1860 - August 1861. Its first appearance in volume form was as three-volume novel, without illustrations, in July 1861. A one-volume edition, the next year, preceded its inclusion in the collected editions of Dickens's lifetime. The three-volume 1861 edition is the basis of the present text: variant readings, including those in manuscript and extant proofs, are recorded in the textual apparatus, providing an unusually rich source of information on Dickens's methods of composition. The Introduction traces this process of composition and draws attention to the two unperformed dramatic adaptations: the reading version and the 1861 play version, made as a safeguard of copyright. Appendices include the original ending, the author's notes, and two textual examinations, one of the five so-called `editions' of 1861, the other a comparison of the one-volume 1862 edition with the 1864 Library edition.


Charles Dickens's Great Expectations

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations

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  • Author: Harold Bloom
  • Publisher: Infobase Publishing
  • ISBN: 1438132743
  • Category : Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 197

Presents a collection of interpretations of Charles Dickens's novel, Great expectations.


Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

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  • Author: Charles Dickens
  • Publisher: Delphi Classics
  • ISBN: 1786566990
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 661

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Great Expectations’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Charles Dickens’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Dickens includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Great Expectations’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Dickens’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles