Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
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- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: Bantam Classic & Loveswept
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780553213423
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In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coach to London where, by the grace of a mysterious benefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle rich and 'become a gentleman. ' Finally, in the luminous mists of the village at evening, Pip the man meets Estella, his dazzingly beautiful tormentor, in a ruined garden--and lays to rest all the heartaches and illusions that his 'great expectations' have brought upon him. Dickens's biographer, Edgar H. Johnson, has said that--except for the author's last-minute tampering with his original ending--Great Expectations is 'the most perfectly constructed and perfectly written of all Dickens's works. ' In John Irving's Introduction to this edition, the novelist takes the view that Dickens's revised ending is 'far more that mirror of the quality of trust in the novel as a whole. ' Both versions of the ending are printed here.