title:Great ExpectationsGreat future
Difficulty:LexileLance reading index1150
Author:Charles DickensCharles Dickens
Name of publishing house:Signet Classics
Published:2009
Language: English
ISBN:9780451531186
Product size:10.8 x 2.2 x 17.6 cm
Package: simple package
Number of pages:510 (subject to material object)
Great ExpectationsGreat expectations (lonely star tears of blood) is written by Charles, a British writer·Dickens in1860Year to year1861The novel created in has been published for more than a hundred years and has been adapted into films, TV dramas and stage plays for many times. It is deeply loved by readers of different times. Edgar Johnson once highly praised this novel and believed that "great expectations" is perfect in structure and language in all Dickens works. This book is suitable for Dickens lovers or English literature lovers.
Reasons for recommendation:
1.Great expectations is Dickens late work. The author combines his rich life experience and mature ideological understanding in this work. It is considered to be one of Dickens mature works in ideology and must be read;
2.Authentic British English, without deletion, is conducive to expanding vocabulary and improving language sense;
3.The writing is ingenious, the description is meticulous, and the language is beautiful. There are many famous sayings and good sentences in the novel, which is of great help to English writing.
Perhaps Dickens’s best-loved work,Great Expectations is a powerful and moving novel suffused with the author’s memories of the past and its grip on the present.
One of the most popular novelists ever, Charles Dickens wrote about what he saw in 19th century London: orphans, child labor, and the crime that was rampant in the city at the time. In the 1861 bestseller Great Expectations, he wove all of these themes into a tale of mystery and personal development. The story of a young orphan boy—poor and alone, but whisked away to London by a anonymous benefactor—is a fantastic tale, complete with plot twists and a love story that puts many modern novels to shame. To this day,Great Expectations remains one of Dickens’s greatest achievements.
With an Introduction by Stanley Weintraub and an Afterword by Annabel Davis-Goff
Pip, an orphan, was raised by her elder sister and employed by the noble Havisham. She fell in love with her adopted daughter, Estella, and wanted to become an orphan"Superior person". A fugitive who was rescued kindly when he was a child became rich abroad. In return for saving his life, he cleverly arranged for him to go to London to receive upper education and enter upper class society. However, fate is not in line with Pips hope: Estella married another person, the fugitive was captured, the inheritance was confiscated, and Pips "great future" suddenly came to naught.
Charles Dickens’sGreat Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and a profoundexamination of moral values.anorphan living with his older sister and her kindly husband, Pip is hired by wealthy and embittered Miss Havisham as a companion for her and her beautiful adopted daughter, Estella. His years in service to the Havishams fill his heart with the desire to rise above his station in life. Pip’s is fulfilled when a mysterious benefactor provides him with“Great Expectations”—the means to be tutored as a gentleman.
Thrust into London’s high-society circles, Pip grows accustomed to a life of leisure, only to find himself lacking as a suitor competing for Estella’s favor. After callously discarding everything he once valued for his own selfish pursuits, Pip learns the identity of his patron—a revelation that shatters his very soul.
charles·Dickens(Charles Dickens,1812[UNK]1870），1812Born in Portsmouth, England.15At the age of, Dickens worked as a scribe in a law firm and learned shorthand. After that, he worked as a newspaper reporter. When he was a reporter of the chronicle morning post, Dickens began to publish short plays with satirical and humorous content, mainly reflecting London life, and gradually became famous. He understands the life and local customs of the people at the bottom of the city, which are reflected in his passionate pen. Since then, he has served as editor, editor in chief and publisher of different magazines, during which he has published dozens of novels and short stories, includingThe Pickwick PapersThe biography of PickwickOliver TwistOliver TwistThe Old Curiosity ShopOld antique shopHard timeHard timesOur Mutual FriendOur mutual friendsA Tale of Two CitiesA tale of two cities.
As a child, Charles Dickens (1812–70) came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A surprise legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling. He taught himself shorthand and worked as a parliamentary reporter until his writing career took off with the publication of Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837). As a novelist and magazine editor, Dickens had a long run of serialized success through Our Mutual Friend (1864–65). In later years, ill health slowed him down, but he continued his popular dramatic readings from his fiction to an adoring public, which included Queen Victoria. At his death, The Mystery of Edwin Drood remained unfinished.
Stanley Weintraub is the author or editor of more than fifty books of biography, culture history, and military history, includingThe London Yankees, Whistler, victoria, and Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert. He retired from Pennsylvania State University as Evan Hugh Professor Emeritus and director of Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.
Annabel Davis-Goff is the author of The Dower House, This Cold Country, and The Fox’s Walk. All three novels were selected by the New York Times as Notable Books. She is also the author of Walled Gardens, a family memoir, and iseditor of The Literary Companion to Gambling. She now teaches literature at Bennington College.
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, “Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave,
and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine, who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle, I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers—pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
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