The Companion to Great ExpectationsBloomsbury Academic, 30. 9. 2000 - Počet stran: 528 Dickens' 13th novel has remained pre-eminent among readers for good reasons. Great Expectations (published originally as a weekly serial from 1860 to 1861) has an attractive yet flawed first-person narrator. The plot moves forward with compelling momentum, fueled by mystery, romance, and reversals, and graced with an artistry many consider Dickens' most nearly perfect literary achievement. This new reference companion sets out to recover and illuminate the Victorian culture and allusive verbal worlds that inform the novel. How distinctive are the story's temporal and topographical settings? How carefully has Dickens integrated Pip's life story with the embedded histories of a mad, jilted spinster, a beautiful orphan girl, an unscrupulous con man, a fierce yet tender convict and a brilliant criminal lawyer? What relevance does the then of Pip's childhood and the now when he relates the story of his evolution into a gentlemen have to the revised, controversial ending Dickens adopted on the advice of a fellow novelist? |
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... Timbs , 1865 , 2.256 , and Timbs , 1867 , 392-3 ) . Two other kinds of public transport early in the century were also available : stagecoaches , which ran daily carrying passengers between two recognized stages ; and mail - coaches ...
... ( Timbs , 1867 , 559 ) Founded in 1670 , the market occupied a three - acre site and was open three days a week ( Tuesday , Thursday and Saturday ) . The name refers to the former garden . of the Convent of Westminster , which lay between ...
... ( Timbs , 1867 , 54-5 ) and sold in lots by ' Dutch auction ' the practice of starting with an excessive sum and then working backwards ( Complete Book of Trades 236 ) . Billingsgate was also the centre of London's oyster trade , which ...
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Steamers at London Bridge wharf | 359 |
Gravesend | 360 |
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