Wealth, happiness, and the valuable lessons of life envelop a varied collection of characters in Dickens' Great Expectations.
From the agony of Charles Dickens’ disenchantment with the Victorian middle class comes a novel of spellbinding mystery and a profound examination of moral values.
The orphan, Pip, and the convict, Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the ambitious lawyer, Mr. Jaggers -- all have a part to play in the mystery.
The story of Pip, and how figures from his past haunt him and in time he uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart.
"Great Expectations" is a delightful novel, rich in humor and free from false pathos. The character of Joe Gargery, simple, tender, quaintly humorous, would alone give imperishable value to the book.
Examines the baby-boom generation whose great expectations helped transform American society
Чарльз Диккенс – один из самых известных писателей викторианской Англии. Его мастерство владения языком, умение строить сюжет и ...
This is the first and still-definitive account of the origins, impact, culture, and future of the baby-boom generation, the most influential in American history.
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.
In this masterful tale of revenge and reward, wealth and poverty, love and rejection, the compelling characters include Magwitch, the fearful and fearsome convict; Estella, whose beauty is excelled only by her haughtiness; and the ...
An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England.
The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process – one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference.
Written in the last decade of Dickens's life, Great Expectations reveals the author's dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet it persists as one of Dickens's most popular novels.
Have you ever wondered whether your marriage could have an impact beyond yourself and your immediate family?
A reissue of the three-volume first book edition (1861) of one of Dickens' greatest novels.
A perfect workbook companion for Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations". The full text is spaced to allow reading and annotation to be done with ease and each page includes a note section to allow for better organization.
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 ...
" One of Dickens' finest novels, this is a gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward.
It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel represents Dickens's peak and maturity as an author. It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s.
Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character.