Great Expectations
This collection of four major works displays Dickens at the height of his writing skills.Oliver Twist,1838, is a novel of social protest set in London's Victorian underworld. A Tale of Two Cities, 1859, is Dickens's great novel of the French Revolution. Great Expectations, 1861, is both comic and...
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This collection of four major works displays Dickens at the height of his writing skills.Oliver Twist,1838, is a novel of social protest set in London's Victorian underworld. A Tale of Two Cities, 1859, is Dickens's great novel of the French Revolution. Great Expectations, 1861, is both comic and tragic, filled with memories of childhood fairytales with a twist. Also includes everyone's favorite holiday classic -- A Christmas Carol, 1843.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780743487610 (0743487613)
Publish date: May 1st 2004
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 656
Edition language: English
TITLE: Great Expectations AUTHOR: Charles Dickens PUBLICATION: Penguin Classics Edition [ISBN: 9780141439563] _______________________ DESCRIPTION: "Dickens's magnificent novel of guilt, desire, and redemption The orphan Pip’s terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, ...
This is possibly the oldest book in my to-read pile. My copy of it has "28 Mar 2008" scribbled on the title page, so it had been sitting on my shelf unread for over 10 years (I even found the Goodreads thread where I told a friend that I had just bought it at a discount). Finally crossing it off my ...
This marks the second of Dickens’s novels that I have read of my own accord rather than by the dictates of a class curriculum, the first having been David Copperfield. I can recall that, when reading Copperfield, I understood better the criticism of sentimentality often levelled against Dickens. Ev...
Reseña pendiente. No sé si es tanta la fascinación por la trama en sí (Pip es casi una Cenicienta a quien un hada anónima le promete un futuro de grandes esperanzas) como por cada personaje en particular. Desde el herrero Joe Gargery, pasando por el lúgubre abogado Jagger (que se lleva "la oficina a...
Summary: In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime ...
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