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by Charles Dickens
language: english
Publisher: Adelphi Press, July of 2018 ‧
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The novel tells a story of personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. Set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century, the novel contains some of Dickens''s most memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of vivid imagery including poverty, prison ships and chains, fights to the death. It offers 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

by Charles Dickens

Property Description
ISBN: 9781787246133
Publisher: Adelphi Press
Release Date: July of 2018
Language: English
Pages: 428
Format: eBook
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Collection: Victorian Epic
Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
eBooks in English > Others
EAN: 9781787246133
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is recognized today as the first writer with true global projection.
Dickens created some of the best literary characters of all time and was one of the most important pioneers in the defense of children's rights in England. The fact that he was forced to drop out of school to work in a factory when his father was imprisoned for debts marked him deeply, leading him to make this reality the main theme of some of his works.
Despite the lack of formal education, he was director of the most important literary journal of his time for about 20 years, wrote several novels, hundreds of short stories, essays and articles, as well as fifteen novels. The importance of his work reached such a magnitude that many of his characters are unavoidable references – such as Oliver Twist, Fagin, Ebenezer Scrooge or Miss Havisham – even for those who have never read his books.
Dickens was also a famous orator, very committed to the causes of his time, and a great social agitator who claimed, along with children's rights, the need to create minimally dignified conditions that the era of the Industrial Revolution seemed to want to destroy definitively.

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