Great Expectations (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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Great Expectations (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

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Great Expectations (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

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Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

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  • Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works.

Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a "study in human weakness and the slow human surrender, " may be called Charles Dickens 's finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions.Written in the last decade of his life, Great Expectations reveals Dickens's dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickens's most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, Great Expectations overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.

Radhika Jones is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the managing editor of Grand Street magazine.

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Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Year
2009
ISBN
9781411433830
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. FROM THE PAGES OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CHARLES DICKENS
  5. THE WORLD OF CHARLES DICKENS AND GREAT EXPECTATIONS
  6. Introduction
  7. CHAPTER I
  8. CHAPTER II
  9. CHAPTER III
  10. CHAPTER IV
  11. CHAPTER V
  12. CHAPTER VI
  13. CHAPTER VII
  14. CHAPTER VIII
  15. CHAPTER IX
  16. CHAPTER X
  17. CHAPTER XI
  18. CHAPTER XII
  19. CHAPTER XIII
  20. CHAPTER XIV
  21. CHAPTER XV
  22. CHAPTER XVI
  23. CHAPTER XVII
  24. CHAPTER XVIII
  25. CHAPTER XIX
  26. CHAPTER XX
  27. CHAPTER XXI
  28. CHAPTER XXII
  29. CHAPTER XXIII
  30. CHAPTER XXIV
  31. CHAPTER XXV
  32. CHAPTER XXVI
  33. CHAPTER XXVII
  34. CHAPTER XXVIII
  35. CHAPTER XXIX
  36. CHAPTER XXX
  37. CHAPTER XXXI
  38. CHAPTER XXXII
  39. CHAPTER XXXIII
  40. CHAPTER XXXIV
  41. CHAPTER XXXV
  42. CHAPTER XXXVI
  43. CHAPTER XXXVII
  44. CHAPTER XXXVIII
  45. CHAPTER XXXIX
  46. CHAPTER XL
  47. CHAPTER XLI
  48. CHAPTER XLII
  49. CHAPTER XLIII
  50. CHAPTER XLIV
  51. CHAPTER XLV
  52. CHAPTER XLVI
  53. CHAPTER XLVII
  54. CHAPTER XLVIII
  55. CHAPTER XLIX
  56. CHAPTER L
  57. CHAPTER LI
  58. CHAPTER LII
  59. CHAPTER LIII
  60. CHAPTER LIV
  61. CHAPTER LV
  62. CHAPTER LVI
  63. CHAPTER LVII
  64. CHAPTER LVIII
  65. CHAPTER LIX
  66. THE ORIGINAL ENDING TO GREAT EXPECTATIONS
  67. ENDNOTES
  68. INSPIRED BY GREAT EXPECTATIONS
  69. COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
  70. FOR FURTHER READING