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Simon & Schuster, May 2004
Enriched Classic Mass Market Paperback, 656 pages
ISBN-10: 0743487613
ISBN-13: 9780743487610
Description
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Dickens's timeless tale of an orphan boy's extraordinary journey through life.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
• A chronology of the author's life and work
• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
• Detailed explanatory notes
• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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Browse Inside Great ExpectationsNew Statesman, October 13, 2011
...Charles Dickens: a Life Claire Tomalin Viking, 576pp, £30 Charles Dickens was born on Friday 7 February 1812. Stand by for an avalanche of Dickens books to mark the bicentenary, but ...
Times Higher Education Supplement, October 12, 2011
...As the title suggests, this is a biography of the young Charles Dickens: Dickens in the making or on the make, depending on how one looks at it. And perhaps it's no coincidence that the title picks up on a recent ...
Guardian.co.uk, October 7, 2011
...Two hundred years after Charles Dickens's birth, his restless, blazing life still fascinates Both these books give a powerful impression of how exhilarating, and how exhausting, it must be to write about Dickens, let ...
Chronicle of Higher Education, December 24, 2009
...else, do push me at times. More even than the King's College service, Christmas for me means Charles Dickens. I am not now talking about holly and ivy, or ghosts and misers and goose and plum pudding - although one of the books I am about ...
Telegraph, October 20, 2009
...by sticking his head in a water pipe and offers a full confession in his right boot. In Great Expectations, Jaggers has bright, creaking boots that seem to laugh in a dry and suspicious way). Dickenss own laughter at these jokes was rather ...
Omaha World-Herald, October 18, 2009
...a week earlier, Sendak said, he began to come out of his depression. It started by picking up “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, one of his great loves, and was followed by listening to Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” “I’m ...
Telegraph, October 16, 2009
...by sticking his head in a water pipe and offers “a full confession in his right boot’’. In Great Expectations, Jaggers has ‘‘bright, creaking boots’’ that seem to laugh ‘‘in a dry and suspicious way’’). Dickens’s own ...
Berkshire Eagle, October 16, 2009
...a week earlier, Sendak says, he began to come out of his depression. It started by picking up "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, one of his great loves, and was followed by listening to Mozart’s "Don Giovanni." "I’m coming back to ...
Globe and Mail, October 16, 2009
...week earlier, Mr. Sendak says, he began to come out of his depression. It started by picking up Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, one of his great loves, and was followed by listening to Mozart's Don Giovanni. I'm coming back to life ...
Delco Times, October 13, 2009
...a week earlier, Sendak says, he began to come out of his depression. It started by picking up "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, one of his great loves, and was followed by listening to Mozart's "Don Giovanni." "I'm coming back to life ...
Winnipeg Sun, October 13, 2009
...Sendak says, he began to come out of his depression. It started by picking up ?Great Expectations? by Charles Dickens, one of his great loves, and was followed by listening to Mozart?s ?Don Giovanni.? ?I?m coming back to life ? and the movie ...
KGO, October 13, 2009
...a week earlier, Sendak says, he began to come out of his depression. It started by picking up "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, one of his great loves, and was followed by listening to Mozart's "Don Giovanni." "I'm coming back to life ...
DCExaminer.com, October 13, 2009
...a week earlier, Sendak says, he began to come out of his depression. It started by picking up "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, one of his great loves, and was followed by listening to Mozart's "Don Giovanni." "I'm coming back to life ...
Variety, October 9, 2009
...Moira Buffini-adaptation 'Byzantium,' a biopic of iconic British soul singer Dusty Springfield as well as an adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel 'Great Expectations.'Those projects are just a few out of a slate the two hope will ...
Time Out Mumbai, September 24, 2009
...There’s a resonance of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations throughout Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s second novel. Much like Dickens’s Pip, Zafón’s David Martin – a hack writer of dubious penny dreadfuls – is ...
Kingston Borough Guardian, August 20, 2009
...From Charles Dickens housing Estella in a residence on Richmond Green in Great Expectations to poet Mick Imlah featuring the Old Deer Park turf in his poem London Scottish in last year ...
Battle Creek Enquirer, August 9, 2009
...s 1987 film version of James Joyce's "The Dead" and David Lean's 1946 film version of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" provide other examples of films which come close to equaling their sources in quality. Then, too, some film versions ...
Yahoo! India, August 5, 2009
...Sen uses examples from everyday life to substantiate his arguments for a new system of justice. Quoting from Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations', he writes: 'In this little world in which children have their existence there is nothing so ...
South Bend Tribune, July 9, 2009
...book: Ebenezer Scrooge is, well, a scrooge, until he is visited by some persuasive ghosts. Worth reading? Its Charles Dickens at his most accessible. And if your kids master this one, you can have Great Expectations for their future reading ...
Cleveland Live, July 7, 2009
...opens in 1917 in atmospheric Barcelona. Our hero is a poor and sickly writer, David Martin, who loves Charles Dickens but works for a couple of shady publishers cranking out Grand Guignol penny dreadfuls. He has a crush on Cristina, his ...
Blogcritics.org, July 5, 2009
...what poverty does to a child, taking away his or her expectations of anything good. A copy of Charles Dickens? Great Expectations makes David realize that the idea of a poor person having expectations of any sort is ridiculous; he?s lucky ...
Cleveland Live, July 5, 2009
...opens in 1917 in atmospheric Barcelona. Our hero is a poor and sickly writer, David Martin, who loves Charles Dickens but works for a couple of shady publishers cranking out Grand Guignol penny dreadfuls. He has a crush on Cristina, his ...
The Independent, June 2, 2009
...There are lots of things that Im not particularly proud of; my driving, the sight of my feet in sandals, my behaviour at a free buffet. I am also, it must be confessed, an easy crier. Tales of adversity, children sleeping, Thora Hird, any of ...
Winston-Salem Journal, May 19, 2009
...character in one her short stories, 'The Tearoom,' or 'La confiteria,' is a spooky Miss Havisham-like character (from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations), inspired by Estelrich's great aunt, Isolina, who she remembers being picara, or ...
Rainy River Record, March 24, 2009
...have deserted the island, and who has decided to teach the children from the only book he has, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens; the story of Pip and Estelle. Eventually one group of soldiers come looking around the island, and ...
Charles Dickens's Books
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A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens is probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the nineteenth century. Since its publication in...Read More -
Great ExpectationsNo other novel in the English language so epitomizes upward mobility, the rise from poverty to wealth, as Great Expectations. Often considered to be...Read More
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Grave ExpectationsA clever literary mash-up that rewrites Charles Dickens's Great Expectations with Pip as a werewolf and Estella as a vampire slayer.Read More
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A Christmas CarolEnriched with detailed notes and commentary, Dickens’s classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge, and the ghosts who show him the true spirit of...Read More
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Oliver TwistThis darkly satiric indictment of the social ills of Victorian London tells the story of a young orphan who becomes involved with a gang of...Read More
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Hard TimesThis story of class conflict in Victorian England serves as a powerful critique of the social injustices that plagued the Industrial Revolution. ...Read More
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A Christmas Carol (Reissue)Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and Ebenezer Scrooge come to marvelous life in Patrick Stewart's critically-acclaimed solo interpretation of A Christmas Carol....Read More
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A Tale of Two CitiesENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Dickens's epic novel of freedom, love, and the burning chaos of the French Revolution. EACH...Read More
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The Life of Our LordCharles Dickens's other Christmas classic, with a new introduction by Dickens's great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens wrote...Read More
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