Charles Dickens Great Expectations

Bibhash Choudhury (Ed.) Illustrator: . Great Expectations: Charles Dickens, PHI Learning 2009 ISBN: 9788120338135

New Softcover . Among all the genres of literature, the novel has always held a fascination for the readers over the centuries. Rightly so, because it tells a story in a gripping and dramatic style, which often reminds them of their lives, sometimes transporting them into an imaginary world of entertainment and escape, and enabling them to forget their worries and concerns. The 19th century England was prodigious for the production of novels with such luminaries as William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, the famous Bronte sistersaEUR"Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte and Emily BronteaEUR"George Eliot and Thomas Hardy adorning the horizon. Among these, Dickens certainly holds a pride of place: his prodigious writings, predominantly novels, and his inimitable style bear testimony to this. The child figure is ubiquitous in all his novelsaEUR"from Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son to Hard Times and Great Expectations. The child is sometimes the victim and sometimes the reminder of the innocence lost in a materialistic world. Great Expectations is a fascinating novel told with remarkable drama, humour and irony. It is a gripping story, the story of Pip, the orphan boy adopted by Mr. Joe Gragery, a blacksmith. Pip has both good luck and great expectations; but then he loses both. Through his rise and fall, Pip learns how to find happiness and, in the process, falls in love. Pip is neither a hero nor an antihero. He is just an ordinary human being who experiences myriad emotionsaEUR"fright, love, grief, misery and happiness. As in his other novels, Dickens draws memorable and haunting characters in this novel, too, and also exposes the rampant corruption prevalent during the period. Besides a comprehensive Preface by the Editor, the book gives the actual text, followed by specially written critical essays on the novel by experts in the field, each offering insights on different aspects of narrative, themes and culture. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Literature as well as researchers in the field should find this book extremely useful and immensely readable. CONTENTS Introduction aEUR" BIBHASH CHOUDHURY Text: Great Expectation by Charles Dickens Critical Essays on Great Expectations 1. History in the Letter of the Text: Reading Great Expectations aEUR" HIMANSU S. MOHAPATRA 2. The Representation of aEUR ChildhoodaEUR in Great Expectations aEUR" DIPTI R. PATTANAIK 3. Great Expectations as an Anti-Comic Novel aEUR" PRADIPTA BORGOHAIN 4. The Dialectic of Inner and Outer Space: A Reading of aEUR HomeaEUR in Great Expectations aEUR" SANGHAMITRA DE 5. Anticipation and Realization: A Reading of Great Expectations aEUR" PRONAB JYOTI NEOG Printed Pages: 468. First edition

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Dickens, Charles, Latif Doss and Andy Hopkins: Great expectations / by Charles Dickens. Simplified by Latif Doss. General editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter. Longman fiction. Harlow : Addison Wesley ; Harlow : Longman, 1997. ISBN: 0582275202
Zustand: Exemplar in gutem Zustand, Ränder und / oder Cover etwas berieben. Text / Sprache: Englisch ; Great expectations / by Charles Dickens. Simplified by Latif Doss. General editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter ; Dickens, Charles *1812-1870* , Originally published in the Bridge series, 1950 ISBN 0582275202 - , ISBN-13: 9780582275201

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Charles Dickens (Author), Harold Bloom (ed.) Illustrator: . Great Expectations: (Viva Modern Critical Interpretations) Viva Books 2007 ISBN: 9788130904597

New Softcover . When we ask the questions, How do we find significant Plots for our lives? How do we make life narratable? We find that the answers are most clearly dramatized in narratives of an autobiographical cast...I choose Great Expectations.... Iflor in this pseudo autobiography, Dickens adopts the revealing strategy of taking a "life" and creating the demarcations of a "plot" within it. The novel will indeed be concerned with finding a plot and losing it, with the precipitation of the sense of plottedness around its hero and his eventual "cure" from plot. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William FaulkneraEUR s The Sound and the Fury and Don DelilloaEUR s White Noise. Contents: Introduction aEURc Calligraphy and Code: Writing in Great Expectations aEURc Repetition, Repression and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations aEURc Great Expectations: Masculinity and Modernity aEURc Manual Conduct in Great Expectations aEURc The Absent Clown in Great Expectations aEURc The Prose and Poetry of Great Expectations aEURc In Primal Sympathy: Great Expecations and the Secret life aEURc Pip and Property the (Re) Production of the Self in Great Expectations aEURc Charles DickensaEUR s Great Expecations: A Defense of the Second Ending aEURc The Bad Faithe of PipaEUR s Faithe : Deconstructing Great Expectations aEURc Progression and the Synthetic Secondary Character : The Case of John Wemmick aEURc Prison Bound : Dicknes and Foucault aEURc The Magic Circle of Genius : DickensaEUR Translations of Shakespearean Drama in Great Expectations aEURc Oedipus and Telemachus Printed Pages: 318. First edition

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Dickens, Charles illustrated by Phiz, Arthur Jules Goodman, et al. Charles Dickens Complete Works, Heron Centennial Edition, 27 volumes [of 36] , London Published by Heron Books , [1969]
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Dickens, Charles, Charles Dickens Complete Works, Heron Centennial Edition, 27 volumes [of 36], 27 illustrated uniform volumes, titles include Hard Times, Pickwick Papers 1&2, David Copperfield 1&2, Barnaby Rudge 1&2, Bleak House 1&2, Sketches by Boz 1&2, Martin Chuzzlewit 1&2, Dombey & Son 1&2, Nicholas Nickleby 1&2, Old Curiosity Shop 1&2, Christmas Stories1&2, A Tales of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Reprinted Pieces, Edwin Drood/Master Humphrey's Clock, American Notes/Pictures from Italy

, 27 illustrated uniform volumes, titles include Hard Times, Pickwick Papers 1&2, David Copperfield 1&2, Barnaby Rudge 1&2, Bleak House 1&2, Sketches by Boz 1&2, Martin Chuzzlewit 1&2, Dombey & Son 1&2, Nicholas Nickleby 1&2, Old Curiosity Shop 1&2, Christmas Stories1&2, A Tales of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Reprinted Pieces, Edwin Drood/Master Humphrey's Clock, American Notes/Pictures from Italy Centennial Edition Octavo Hardback , a very nice looking set, all volumes internally and externally clean, gilt bright with just a few volumes slightly dulled at spines, overall in very good condition , green faux leather with gilt decoration and titles, patterned endpapers, ribbon marker

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