Este eBook presenta "Grandes Esperanzas", con un indice dinámico y detallado. Es considerada como una de sus más grandes y sofisticadas novelas, así como también una de las más populares, siendo esta adaptada a obras teatrales y cinematográficas. La historia puede también ser considerada como una semi-autobiografía de Dickens, al igual que muchas de sus obras, en la cual mezcla sus experiencias de vidas con su entorno social.La novela narra la historia del huérfano Pip, quien describe su vida desde su niñez hasta su madurez tratando de convertirse en un hombre de nobleza a lo largo de su vida. Vive con su hermana y su cuñado, a quien ayuda en su taller de herrería. Cuando la rica Miss Havisham requiere a Pip como acompañante de ella y de su hija, el joven se dará cuenta de las penurias de su clase social y deseará subir posiciones en el escalafón social. Pip recibirá entonces la visita de un abogado de Londres, quien le informará que un benefactor anónimo le quiere convertir en un caballero. Pip descubrirá que el valor de la amistad y de la moral no se puede comprar con dinero.La trama de la historia toma lugar desde la víspera de Navidad de 1812, cuando el protagonista tiene solo siete años de edad, hasta el invierno de 1840.
cbl_tn: Mister Pip explores the reading and interpretation of Great Expectations in a late 20th century South Sea island culture in the midst of a civil war.
Bcteagirl: Thursday Next is a Literary Detective who helps to keep people from changing plots in books, keep book characters from escaping etc. When she goes in for training, who should she be apprenticed to but Miss Havisham who is more than happy to get out of her dreary rooms once and a while. What larks!… (más)
Bcteagirl: If you enjoyed the 'good hard working pastoral theme' of his uncle and their 'Larks' you may enjoy Adam Bede which has many of the same themes.
lucyknows: Great Expectations and Bonfire of the Vanities can be successfully tied together in that both the authors explore the themes of ostentation, ambition and morality
JuliaMaria: In der Einleitung zu "an unofficial rose" von Anthony D. Nuttall wird Dickens als Vergleich herangezogen: "An Unofficial Rose is indeed a surprisingly Dickensian novel, crowded, superabundant."
'In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the 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
The idea of an innocent boy establishing unconsciously an immense influence over the mind of a hunted felon … haunted Dickens’s imagination until he gathered round it a whole new world of characters and incidents
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Neither were my notions of the theological positions to which my Catechism bound me, at all accurate; for, I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my declaration that I was to "walk in the same all the days of my life," laid me under an obligation always to go through the village from our house in one particular direction, and never to vary it by turning down by the wheelwright's or up by the mill.
...a money-box was kept on the kitchen mantel-shelf, in to which it was publicly made known that all my earnings were dropped. I have an impression that they were to be contributed eventually towards the liquidation of the National Debt, but I know I had no hope of any personal participation in the treasure.
Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father, for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt. So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. Â (Chapter XXVII)
"Oh! I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt," said Estella, "and of course if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no--sympathy--sentiment--nonsense."
And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.
After that, he drank all the rest of the sherry, and Mr. Hubble drank the port, and the two talked (which I have since observed to be customary in such cases) as if they were of quite another race from the deceased, and were notoriously immortal.
If you can’t get to be oncommon through going straight, you’ll never get to do it through going crooked.
Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. (Chapter IV)
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretenses did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad hal-crown of somebody else's manufacture is reasonable enough, but that I should knowingly reckon of my own make as good money! (Chapter XXVIII)
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
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Este eBook presenta "Grandes Esperanzas", con un indice dinámico y detallado. Es considerada como una de sus más grandes y sofisticadas novelas, así como también una de las más populares, siendo esta adaptada a obras teatrales y cinematográficas. La historia puede también ser considerada como una semi-autobiografía de Dickens, al igual que muchas de sus obras, en la cual mezcla sus experiencias de vidas con su entorno social.La novela narra la historia del huérfano Pip, quien describe su vida desde su niñez hasta su madurez tratando de convertirse en un hombre de nobleza a lo largo de su vida. Vive con su hermana y su cuñado, a quien ayuda en su taller de herrería. Cuando la rica Miss Havisham requiere a Pip como acompañante de ella y de su hija, el joven se dará cuenta de las penurias de su clase social y deseará subir posiciones en el escalafón social. Pip recibirá entonces la visita de un abogado de Londres, quien le informará que un benefactor anónimo le quiere convertir en un caballero. Pip descubrirá que el valor de la amistad y de la moral no se puede comprar con dinero.La trama de la historia toma lugar desde la víspera de Navidad de 1812, cuando el protagonista tiene solo siete años de edad, hasta el invierno de 1840.
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