An edition of Great Expectations (1861)

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An edition of Great Expectations (1861)

Great expectations

  • 3.66 ·
  • 110 Ratings
  • 508 Want to read
  • 33 Currently reading
  • 142 Have read

Great Expectations is remarkable for its sym- bolic use of setting. The hostile world of the cold and lonely marshes is an apt background for the meeting Of the lonely child and the outcast convict, both of whom have found the world hostile. Satis House, with its decay and its stopped clocks, represents not only the stopped world of Miss Havisham, and the corruption that Estella undergoes there, but also the corruption that the genteel world will bring to Pip. Mr. Jaggers' office, full of re- minders of the criminal world, is Mr. Jaggers' life. Wal- worth is Wemmick's castle, not only because it has tur- rets and a drawbridge, but because it is his individuality, his humanity, which must be preserved and defended against the world of his employer and Little Britain.

Great Expectations is perhaps Dickens' master- piece. The structure is skillful, the irony brilliant, and the theme sustained. The hero, unlike his earlier counter- parts, is no pasteboard figure, but a fallible human being in Search of his identity. The comedy is less grotesque and the pathos less sentimental than in the earlier novels. In its exploration of guilt, the book anticipates a very modern theme. It may well turn out to be the most en- during, for the fastidious reader, of all the works of Dickens.

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Airmont Pub. Co.
Language
English
Pages
383

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Edition Notes

Series
An Airmont Classic, CL68

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Library of Congress
PR4560 .A1 1965

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
383 p.
Number of pages
383

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Open Library
OL24208675M
LCCN
82048152
OCLC/WorldCat
4628234
Goodreads
122753913

Work Description

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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