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The central theme of Great Expectations— How do we know who we are?— is one that preoccupied the heart and mind ofCharles Dickens. Here he weaves a timeless story where vindictiveness and guilt clash with love and gratitude. The orphan Pip; the convict Magwitch; the beautiful Estella and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham; and the master lawyer Mr. Jaggers; all play their part in a story whose narrative force and psychological intensity never slackens. Graham Greene called the novel a book filled with secret prose giving us "the sense of a mind speaking to itself with no one to listen." Tragic, comic, filled with pathos as well as childhood memories with a twist, Great Expectations is considered by many to be Dickens' greatest novel.
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Barnes & Noble Classics: Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Language
- Released
- 1994
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €6.49
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- Title
- Barnes & Noble Classics: Great Expectations
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Charles Dickens
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Books
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 457
- ISBN10
- 1566194423
- ISBN13
- 9781566194426
- Series
- Tags
- France
- Description
- The central theme of Great Expectations— How do we know who we are?— is one that preoccupied the heart and mind ofCharles Dickens. Here he weaves a timeless story where vindictiveness and guilt clash with love and gratitude. The orphan Pip; the convict Magwitch; the beautiful Estella and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham; and the master lawyer Mr. Jaggers; all play their part in a story whose narrative force and psychological intensity never slackens. Graham Greene called the novel a book filled with secret prose giving us "the sense of a mind speaking to itself with no one to listen." Tragic, comic, filled with pathos as well as childhood memories with a twist, Great Expectations is considered by many to be Dickens' greatest novel.