Great Expectations

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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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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Charles Dickens Illustrator: . Great Expectations, Peacock/ Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. 2003 ISBN: 9788124801062

New Hardcover . Great Expectations is a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and is full of comic and tragic twists. It is generally considered to be one of the best masterpieces of Dickens. Pip, an orphan, is brought up by his cranky older sister and her gentle, humorous and kind-hearted husband, Joe Gargery. He is hired by a rich, eccentric lady, Miss Havisham. There he meets her beautiful, but haughty, niece, Estella and develops love for her. Estella is so contemptuous of him that he soon feels that he can never be content with his humble life. Pip is determined to change his life, goes to London to acquire good manners and education. He meets a stranger who is ready to use his fortune for Pip .About Author: Charles Dickens (1812-70) was born at Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, the second of eight children. His father, who was a government clerk, was imprisoned for debt and Dickens was sent to work at the age of twelve. His experiences of this period haunted him until the end of his life and inspired much of his fiction, notably the early chapters of David Copperfield. Mastering shorthand, he became reporter of debates in the commons for the Morning Chronicle. He started publishing sketches in various periodicals, which were subsequently republished as Sketches of Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People (1836-37). The Pickwic Papers were published in 1836-37. After a slow start, he earned immense popularity and embarked on a promising future. One of the secrets of his success was the method of cheap serial publication which he used for all his novels. In April 1836, Dickens married the pretty Catherine. On Christmas Day 1836 he met John Forester, who became his close friend and biographer. He published Oliver Twist (1837-38) followed by Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) and Barnaby Rudge (1841). In 1842 Dickens and his wife visited America but, in spite of triumphant reception, he returned disillusioned. His American Notes (1842) and Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44) caused much offence in America. In America he advocated international copyright and the abolition of slavery. His series of Christmas books earned him immense popularity. The first, A Christmas Carol, appeared in 1843. Dombey and Son (1844-46) and David Copperfield (1849-50) were more serious in theme and more carefully planned than his early novels. In Dickens s later work, his social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage. He published Bleak House in 1853 which was followed by Hard Times (1854), Little Dorrit (1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-61) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-65). His admiration for the young actress Ellen Ternan further strained his marriage deteriorating over years and led to his separation from Catherine in 1858. Dickens died on 9 June 1870 and his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, remained incomplete. Printed Pages: 504. 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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