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Great Expectations : Introduction by Michael Slater by Charles Dickens (1992, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679405798
ISBN-139780679405795
eBay Product ID (ePID)39670
Product Key Features
Book TitleGreat Expectations : Introduction by Michael Slater
Number of Pages544 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Literary, Historical
Publication Year1992
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorCharles Dickens
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
LCCN91-053219
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Great Expectationsmay be called a novel without a hero . . . In [it] Dickens was really trying to be a quiet, a detached, and even a cynical observer of human life . . . And the final and startling triumph of Dickens is this: that even to this moderate and modern story he gives an incomparable energy which is not moderate and which is not modern. He is trying to be reasonab≤ but in spite of himself he is inspired." G. K. Chesterton "Great Expectations[is] generally regarded as Dickens's artistic masterpiece, and a novel profoundly serious in its psychological and sociological import . . . Dickens tell[s] a universal story of human passions, mutual exploitation, selfishness, self-delusion, and selflessness . . . [It] is the subtlest and most profound, as well as the most triumphantly achieved, of all his great novels." From the Introduction by Michael Slater, " Great Expectations may be called a novel without a hero . . . In [it] Dickens was really trying to be a quiet, a detached, and even a cynical observer of human life . . . And the final and startling triumph of Dickens is this: that even to this moderate and modern story he gives an incomparable energy which is not moderate and which is not modern. He is trying to be reasonab≤ but in spite of himself he is inspired." G. K. Chesterton " Great Expectations [is] generally regarded as Dickens's artistic masterpiece, and a novel profoundly serious in its psychological and sociological import . . . Dickens tell[s] a universal story of human passions, mutual exploitation, selfishness, self-delusion, and selflessness . . . [It] is the subtlest and most profound, as well as the most triumphantly achieved, of all his great novels." From the Introduction by Michael Slater
Dewey Decimal823/.8
SynopsisOne of Charles Dickens's most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip's first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham's mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide. Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist's bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions. This edition includes Dickens's original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.
LC Classification NumberPR4560.A1 1992
