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Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
Contributor(s): Sutherland, John (Author), Connell, Jolyon (Author)

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ISBN: 1907776036     ISBN-13: 9781907776038
Publisher: Connell Publishing
OUR PRICE: $11.04  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century
- Study Aids | Study Guides
Dewey: 823.8
Series: Connell Guides
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.3" W x 6.8" L (0.35 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Great Expectations is one of the best-selling Victorian novels of our time. No Dickens work, with the exception of A Christmas Carol, has been adapted more for both film and television. It has been as popular with critics as it has with the public. In 1937, George Bernard Shaw called the novel Dickens's "most compactly perfect book". John Lucas describes it as "the most perfect and the most beautiful of all Dickens's novels", Angus Wilson as "the most completely unified work of art that Dickens ever produced". Great Expectations has been so successful partly because it's an exciting story. Dickens always had a keen eye on the market and subscribed to Wilkie Collins's advice: "make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, above all make 'em wait." From the violent opening scene on the marshes to the climax of Magwitch's attempted escape on the Thames, the story is full of suspense, mystery and drama. But while these elements of Great Expectations have ensured its popularity, it is also a novel which, as this guide will seek to show, raises profound questions not just about the nature of Victorian society but about the way human relationships work and the extent to which people are shaped by their childhoods and the circumstances in which they grow up.
 
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