Great Expectations A Victorian Coming-of-Age Tale of Pip, Estella, Hidden Fortune, and Class Ambition from Marshes to London
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Altersempfehlung
ab 12 Jahr(e)
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CopycatSeitenzahl
280
Maße (L/B/H)
1,5/15,2/22,9 cm
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390 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-285-2413-5
Charles Dickens's Great Expectations is a rich Bildungsroman that traces the moral and emotional development of Pip, an orphan whose sudden rise in fortune exposes the seductive and corrosive power of class ambition. Combining vivid realism, sharp social satire, and melodramatic intensity, Dickens situates the novel within the crowded legal offices, decaying aristocratic houses, and bleak marshlands of Victorian England. Its memorable figures-Miss Havisham, Estella, and Magwitch among them-embody the novel's central concerns with self-deception, gentility, guilt, and redemption. Dickens, one of the defining voices of nineteenth-century English literature, drew deeply on his own experience of poverty, social insecurity, and tireless self-fashioning. His childhood hardships, including his family's financial instability and his early exposure to the brutal hierarchies of urban life, gave him a lifelong preoccupation with injustice and aspiration. In Great Expectations, these concerns mature into one of his most psychologically subtle works, shaped by a seasoned novelist's understanding of both social systems and private conscience. This is a novel to recommend not only for its famous characters and compelling plot, but for its profound moral intelligence. Readers interested in Victorian literature, class, and the formation of identity will find it indispensable and enduringly moving.
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