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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” ― Charles DickensGreat Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form 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. Dickens originally intended Great Expectations to be twice as long, but constraints imposed by the management of All the Year Round limited the novel's length. The novel is collected and dense, with a conciseness unusual for Dickens. According to G. K. Chesterton, Dickens penned Great Expectations in "the afternoon of [his] life and fame." It was the penultimate novel Dickens completed, preceding Our Mutual Friend. It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s. The novel contains some of Dickens most memorable scenes, including its opening, in a graveyard, when the young orphan Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch.Great Expectations is a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships ("the hulks"), barriers and chains, and fights to the death. Upon its release, Thomas Carlyle spoke of "All that Pip's nonsense." Later, George Bernard Shaw praised the novel as "All of one piece and consistently truthful." Dickens felt Great Expectations was his best work, calling it "a very fine idea," and was very sensitive to compliments from his friends: "Bulwer, who has been, as I think you know, extraordinarily taken by the book. "Great Expectations has a colorful cast that has entered popular culture: the capricious Miss Havisham, the cold and beautiful Estella, Joe the kind and generous blacksmith, the dry and sycophantic Uncle Pumblechook, Mr. Jaggers, Wemmick with his dual personality, and the eloquent and wise friend, Herbert Pocket.All time bestseller Classics!

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Author : Charles Dickens
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1. Pip the narrator. The story is essentially the story of Pip’s life as told by now older and wiser Pip as he reflects back on his life, the turning points and wrong decisions he made. The good , the bad and the ugly of his life. I identify with this Pip and do similar things myself.2. Pip the protagonist. It is hard not to like the central character Pip. We see him grow up, we follow him wherever he goes, we get to hear his thoughts and empathise with his dreams and lovesick ways. We see some of ourselves in him. He makes mistakes and is annoying at times but aren’t we all?3. The story. Unbelievable if you think about it but Dickens can make you believe the unbelievable if just for a while. As it was written in serial form there are continual tantalising developments at the end of chapters to whet your appetite for more (for example chapter XXXIV ends with the paragraph telling of the death of Mrs Joe Gargery). Each of the three parts of the novel deals with a different expectation, and we watch how Pip changes in the face of his changing expectations. The full story is not revealed until the final chapters but it is gripping all the way.4. Characters. What an incredibly interesting group of characters with fascinating and appropriate names. Miss Havisham (HAVE A HAM), the rich eccentric who still wears her wedding dress after being jilted 25 years before. Mr Jaggers (JAG..) , the razor sharp lawyer, villains Orlick , Drummle ( a DRUM heavy abusive) and Compeyson (COME PAY ME) sound bad and the beautiful but unreachable Estella ( star). Dickens characters stick around in your mind long after you read his story.5. Moral issues. In a time of great wealth in England there is great poverty and injustice. No one can describe these issues as well as Dickens.6. Humour. There is a lot of excellent humour in Great Expectations. The Pocket household, which is an upside down Alice in Wonderland place run by the servants Flopson and Millers, is a good example.7. Symbols, Imagery and allegory. The atmospherics of mists (in graveyard when he meets the convict), huge storm (when Magwitch visits), light (Joe’s forge a light across the marshes) and darkness are great in creating moods. Miss Havisham’s garden and mansion are symbols of wealth and privilege of high society. Perhaps Dickens has a message when we see they are decaying.8. Beautiful writing. These words from the Narrator Pip say so much “ Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bind you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day”9. Wealth of human issues. Crime, social class, injustice love and friendship in all its forms, bitterness and hate, unrequited love, coming of age and life’s expectations.10. Dickensian. Dickens is to literature what Shakespeare is to plays. In the Oxford dictionary the term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters. Great Expectations: The Original 1860 Edition (A Charles Dickens Classic Novel) Online PDF eBook website [copied and pasted from my Goodreads review]This was a bit of a challenge to read... Pretty apt since it filled the "book that intimidates" me slot in my 2016 Reading Challenge (from modernmrsdarcy dot com slash 2016-reading-challenge) which I finished on December 31—just in time!A Tale of Two Cities almost filled that slot but since I kind of read that in high school (probably the CliffsNotes version actually—SORRY Mr. Leskusky!) I decided to go with this great Charles Dickens novel which I literally knew nothing about.I didn't know that Great Expectations was all about young Pip and how he was orphaned and lived with his sister and her blacksmith husband, Joe. I didn't know that he helped an escaped convict as a child nor that he hung at the rich Miss Havisham's house and fell in love with her adopted daughter, Estella. I didn't know that the titular "Expectations" were referencing an unknown benefactor who sent Pip to London as a young man to learn how to become a gentleman.All I knew was I picked up a free ebook on Amazon (yay public domain!), read 2% (basically one chapter), and then didn't read any more of it for ten days. The first chapter or two didn't grab me and I procrastinated with the final book in my 2016 challenge. But it was on my list and I knew I had to finish this.That's when I rented an audiobook from my library to help me "read" the book faster/during times when I couldn't read. But after listening to about 20% of the novel, I realized that a lot of my cramming in of "reading" through my headphones was done while I was multi-tasking and I had close to 0% comprehension. I remember there was a chapter that said "Biddy" about a dozen times in a few minutes and I realized that I had no idea who Biddy was.So I went back to the last page I actually read and used the audio book to listen while reading to catch myself up (so I actually read about a fifth of this book twice!) and then I tried my best to listen/read in combo to focus on the novel.While my personal experience reading/listening to the novel was...unique, in the end, I mostly enjoyed the experience. Dickens created a bunch of interesting characters and developed a story with a lot of twists and turns (you can really tell how serialized the story was with basically every chapter ending with a reveal or cliffhanger). I feel like there's probably a lot of good literary study available here (themes, motifs, symbolism, etc.) but I'm not in high school so I did my best just to read the book to learn its plot and characters and enjoy the ride.And for the most part, I was able to do that. With a few hours to spare before the end of the year! PDF Great Expectations: The Original 1860 Edition (A Charles Dickens Classic Novel) download site ePUB Great Expectations: The Original 1860 Edition (A Charles Dickens Classic Novel) ebook gratuito (PDF) Great Expectations: The Original 1860 Edition (A Charles Dickens Classic Novel)