Great Expectations – Part 2 of 2 – FULL Audio Book – by Charles Dickens – Video

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Great Expectations - Part 2 of 2 - FULL Audio Book - by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Part 2 of 2 - FULL Audio Book - by Charles Dickens Great Expectations is Charles Dickens #39; thirteenth novel. It is the second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.[N 1] Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and the story genre is Victorian Literature.[1] It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens #39; weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.[2] In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. Great Expectations was to be twice as long, but All the Year Round #39;s management constraints limited the novel #39;s length. Collected and dense, with a conciseness unusual for Dickens, the novel represents Dickens #39; peak and maturity as an author. Great Expectations was written, according to GK Chesterton, in "the afternoon of his life and glory," and the penultimate novel Dickens completed, preceding Our Mutual Friend. It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early-to-mid 1800s.[1] From the outset, the reader is "treated" by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch.[3] Great Expectations is a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships, "the hulks," barriers and chains, and fights to the death.[3] It therefore combines intrigue and unexpected twists of autobiograhical detail in different ...

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