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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella.
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Fxpectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.
This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.
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Authors, Benefactors, Bildungsromans, Boys, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Child and youth fiction, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Coming of age, Conduct of life, Criticism and interpretation, Description and travel, Drama, English fiction, English literature, English Manuscripts, Ex-convicts, Facsimiles, Family, Fiction, History, Industrial revolution, Inheritance and succession, Juvenile fiction, Man-woman relationships, Manners and customs, Manuscripts, Newspapers, Open Library Staff Picks, open_syllabus_project, Orphans, Pirates, Politics and government, Poor children, Readers, Readers (Adult), Readers for new literates, Revenge, Roman, Social classes, Social conditions, Social history, Social life and customs, Study guides, Working class, Young men, AdaptationsPeople
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Philip Pirrip, Joe Gargery, Georgiana Maria Gargery, Mr Pumblechook, Miss Havisham, Estella, Matthew Pocket, Herbert Pocket, Camilla, Raymond, Georgiana, Sarah Pocket, Mrs Hubble, Mr Hubble, Biddy, Mr Jaggers, John Wemmick, Molly, Compeyson, Arthur Havisham, Dolge Orlick, Bentley Drummle, Clara Barley, Miss Skiffins, StartopPlaces
England, Great Britain, United States, Canada, Italy, Kent, Barnard's Inn, London (England), Richmond, New South WalesTimes
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Great Expectations
2003, GE Fabbri
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- Facsimile reproduction of the 1875 edition published by Chapman and Hall, London.
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Great Expectations
1998, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
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"MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip."
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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' 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.
The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations, which is popular both with readers and literary critics, has been translated into many languages and adapted numerous times into various media.
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