Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. This vivid and influential story brings Victorian London into sharp focus. Some of Dickens's most iconic characters, from the ambitious orphan, Pip, to the eccentric spinster, Miss Havisham, come to life in GREAT EXPECTATIONS. A tale of love, social class, and coming of age, from a British master of the novel.
Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. A true Christmas classic for all ages: On Christmas Eve, as the miserly Scrooge broods over his hatred of the season, the ghost of his business partner, Marley, appears. Over the course of the evening, the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come take Scrooge on a tour of his childhood and his future. Part morality play, part social critique, A CHRISTMAS CAROL explores greed, poverty, charity, and the spirit of Christmas.
Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. From its iconic opening line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," A TALE OF TWO CITIES is a story of duality and drama. Dickens paints a picture of life in both Paris and London before and during the French Revolution. With its sharp social commentary and unforgettable characters, this novel is a masterpiece of Victorian literature.
"Great Expectations" - this is a book about a man, love, unexpected life turns, revenge and anger, about unjustified hopes and unfulfilled dreams. This is an interesting story about the difficult life of the protagonist Pip, who, as an honest and unselfish person, does not find a place in "secular society", and money can not make him happy.Initially, Dickens wanted to finish the novel tragically, but, in spite of everything, did not dare to finish "Great Expectations" with their complete collapse.Now even more interesting in this exclusive illustrated edition.
Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. What began as a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela became one of Henry Fielding's greatest works, and one of the earliest English novels. Joseph, at the age of ten, becomes the apprentice of a man named Thomas Booby. But as he grows into a handsome young man, he begins to catch the eyes of Lady Booby, Sir Thomas's wife, and her servant, Mrs. Slipslop. Shocked by their advances, chaste and innocent Joseph spurs their every attempt at seduction. Insulted by his continuous rejection, Lady Booby fires Joseph and turns him out into the streets. Freed from his lecherous employer, his sets off on a journey to visit his beloved Fanny Goodwill. On the way, his old tutor, the pious Parson Adams, becomes his travel companion. The road to Fanny is paved with adventure, and poor Joseph can't seem to shake his various suitors. All he wants to do is live a quiet life devoted to his love, but will he be stopped at every turn?
* Beautifully illustrated with delightful sketches from early editions, Great Expectations is an epic tale that follows the adventures of Pip, a young orphan who comes of age as the novel progresses. Great Expectations was Dickens' personal favorite and is considered one of his best works. Encompassing the broad themes of poverty and wealth; love and rejection; and good and evil, the story provides a fascinating study of life during the mid-nineteenth century. * Just as gripping today as it was when first published over 150 years ago, it continues to be hugely popular around the world and is well established as one of the great works of English literature.* This meticulous edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Great Expectations (Illustrated Edition)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Great Expectations depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery—poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Great Expectations is the story of Pip, an orphan boy adopted by a blacksmith's family, who has good luck and great expectations, and then loses both his luck and his expectations. Through this rise and fall, however, Pip learns how to find happiness. He learns the meaning of friendship and the meaning of love and, of course, becomes a better person for it. The story opens with the narrator, Pip, who introduces himself and describes a much younger Pip staring at the gravestones of his parents. This tiny, shivering bundle of a boy is suddenly terrified by a man dressed in a prison uniform. The man tells Pip that if he wants to live, he'll go down to his house and bring him back some food and a file for the shackle on his leg. Pip runs home to his sister, Mrs. Joe Gragery, and his adoptive father, Joe Gragery. Mrs. Joe is a loud, angry, nagging woman who constantly reminds Pip and her husband Joe of the difficulties she has gone through to raise Pip and take care of the house. Pip finds solace from these rages in Joe, who is more his equal than a paternal figure, and they are united under a common oppression. Read more in paperback book, check it out now!
