Charles Dickens

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Great Expectations (Annotated, Large Print)

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Read one of the greatest classics of all time.The definitive edition.Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles Dickens Large Print editions available in hardback and paperback Pip, a young and bright orphan boy, is attacked by an escaped convict while visiting his parents' graves. Being raised by his older sister and her kind-hearted blacksmith husband named Joe, he has a foundation to view the convict's actions uniquely. Although the convict accosts and threatens Pip into committing a crime of theft on his behalf, an unexpected turn of events surprises all readers. Due to Pip's upbringing, he is able to discern that there are consequences to actions and that not all convicts have evil hearts. He helps readers see that there is often more to people than what first appears. Great Expectations, the brilliant work of Charles Dickens, creates a profound sense of meaning in its small world. The initial release of this novel created such a stir by gaining almost complete universal acclaim. Both readers and critics were astonished by Dickens' continuous themes and portrayal of poverty, love, rejection, wealth, and the consequences of our actions which continue to resonate with the popular culture of today. Get your copy today!

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently. As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels - Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.

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• Verlag: Sastrugi Press LLC
• Seitenzahl: 702
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1121g
• ISBN-13: 9781649220486
• ISBN-10: 1649220480
• Artikelnr.: 60794796