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Charles Dickens - Great Expectations (New Paperback)
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Synopsis
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder.
His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals.
Pip's desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella, but secrets from the past impede his progress and he has many hard lessons to learn.
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.
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- Format : Thick New Paperback
- Condition : New
- Category : Fiction - Classics
- Published : 1860 (This Edition 2008 - Vintage)
- ISBN : 9780099511571
- SKU : B002939
- PPC : SP500gm
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External Reviews
"Perhaps the thing I love best about this novel is the cast of characters - their names as well as their personalities. Ms. Havisham is one of my favourite characters to ever appear in all of the literature I have read. There is so much density and complexion to her character."
"The supreme Dickens' tragi-comedy." - Goodreads Reviews.
"A story of the traumas of sex and class. My favourite moment is the one where Magwitch makes his stumbling way up the shadowy staircase towards an unnerved but unsuspecting Pip: the halting but inexorable rise of the repressed 'from the darkness beneath'" - Sarah Waters.
"This was the author's last great work, the defects in it are as nearly imperceptible as spots on the sun or shadows on a sunlit sea" - Algernon Charles Swinburne.
"I would always prefer to go get another Dickens off the shelf than pick up a new book by someone I've not read yet . . . I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive." - Donna Tartt.
The Author
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
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