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 Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. » Add other authors (82 possible) | Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | | Dickens, Charles | — | primary author | all editions | confirmed | | Ardizzone, Edward | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Bickford-Smith, Coralie | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Calder, Angus | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Cardwell, Margaret | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Chesterton, Gilbert Keith | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Davidson, Frederick | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Flint, Kate | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Green, Charles | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Hayens, Kenneth | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Irving, John | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Jarvis, Martin | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Jones, Radhika | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Jung-Grell, Ulrike | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Lang, Andrew | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Law, Graham | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Lesser, Anton | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Leyris, Pierre | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Mitchell, Charlotte | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Muller, Frank | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Page, Frederick | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Page, Michael | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | PAILTHORPE, F W | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Pailthorpe, F.W. | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Pailthorpe, Frederic W. | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Pinching, David | Afterword | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Pinnington, Adrian | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Prebble, Simon | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Rhys, Ernest | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Searle, Ronald | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Shaw, Bernard | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Slater, Michael | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Foreword | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Stone, Marcus | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Symons, Julian | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Threapleton, Mary M. | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Trapiello, Andrés | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Trotter, David | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Vallve, Manuel | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Vance, Simon | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Weintraub, Stanley | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Wilson, Angus | Afterword | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Winterich, John T. | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed |
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Affectionately Inscribed
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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. | |
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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. (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) | |
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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. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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▾Book descriptions Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0141439564, Paperback)
An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:43:29 -0500) (see all 10 descriptions) ▾Library descriptions Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.… (more) » see all 28 descriptions |
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