Great Expectations

Autor: Dickens, Charles

Editorial: Dover

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9780486415864

Reseña: In this unflaggingly suspenseful story of aspirations and moral redemption humble orphaned Pip a ward of his short-tempered older sister and her husband Joe is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman. And indeed it seems as though that dream is destined to come to pass -- because one day under sudden and enigmatic circumstances he finds himself in possession of great expectations. In telling Pips story Dickens traces a boys path from a hardscrabble rural life to the teeming streets of 19th-century London unfolding a gripping tale of crime and guilt revenge and reward and love and loss. Its compelling characters include Magwitch the fearful and fearsome convict Estella whose beauty is excelled only by her haughtiness and the embittered Miss Havisham an eccentric jilted bride. Written in the last decade of Dickens life Great Expectations was praised widely and universally admired. It was his last great novel and many critics believe it to be his finest. Readers and critics alike praised it for its masterful plot which rises above the melodrama of some of his earlier works and for its three-dimensional psychologically realistic characters -- characters much deeper and more interesting than the one-note caricatures of earlier novels. In none of his other works wrote the reviewer in the 1861 Atlantic does he evince a shrewder insight into real life and a cheaper perception and knowledge of what is called the world. To Swinburne the novel was unparalleled in all of English fiction with defects as nearly imperceptible as spots on the sun or shadows on a sunlit sea. Shaw found it Dickens most completely perfect book. Now this inexpensive edition invites modern readers to savor this timeless masterpiece teeming with colorful characters unexpected plot twists and Dickens vivid rendering of the vast tapestry of mid-Victorian England.