Books with title Screen Adaptations: Great Expectations

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Unabridged) - THE ORIGINAL DICKEN'S CLASSIC WITH ILLUSTRATIONS PLUS BONUS ENTIRE AUDIO*** This Ebook Features Amazing Dynamic Chapter Navigation Links for a Premium Reading Experience.Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.Plot SummaryOn Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan of about six, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting his mother's, father's and younger brothers' graves. The convict scares Pip into stealing food for him, and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his older sister and her husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture two convicts engaged in a fight and return them to the prison ship.Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster, who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love.As a young apprentice at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip is approached by a lawyer, Mr Jaggers, who tells him he is to receive a large sum of money from an anonymous benefactor and must leave for London immediately where he is to become a gentleman. Pip believes Miss Havisham to be his benefactress and visits her and Estella, who has returned from studying on the Continent.With Pip now heavily in debt, his benefactor is revealed to be Abel Magwitch, the convict he helped, who was transported to New South Wales where he eventually became wealthy.Magwitch makes himself known to PipThere is a warrant for Magwitch's arrest in England and he will be hanged if he is caught. A plan is therefore hatched for him to flee by boat. It is also revealed that Estella is the daughter of Magwitch and Mr Jaggers's housemaid, Molly, whom he defended in a murder charge and who gave up her daughter to be adopted by Miss Havisham.Pip confronts Miss Havisham with Estella's history. Miss Havisham stands too close to the fire which ignites her dress and she eventually dies from her injuries.While attempting to escape, Magwitch is captured and sent to jail where he dies shortly before his execution. Pip is about to be arrested for unpaid debts when he falls ill. Joe nurses him back to health and pays off his debts.

"Dickens’ most compactly perfect book." —George Bernard Shaw"‘Great Expectations’ has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language." —John Irving"The most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world." —J. Hillis Miller"Unparalleled in the whole range of English fiction." —Algernon Charles SwinburneConsidered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, "Great Expectations" traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all — the truth about himself.

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To Be a Gentleman! Young Pip, an orphan boy, apprenticed to the village blacksmith, yearns to be a gentleman. Suddenly a mysterious person wills him a fortune and he leaves his village to be educated as a rich gentleman. Pip longs to marry Estella, beautiful ward of the eccentric Miss Havisham. But Pip's new life is shattered by the re-appearance of Magwitch, a convict who once forced him to steal. Will Magwitch's demands spell the end of Pip's 'great expectations'. . . .?

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One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide. Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist’s bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions.This edition includes Dickens’s original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.

8.5" x 11" edition (21.59 x 27.94 cm) with small type (9-point) and three column format on cream paper.This unabridged edition contains the endings of 1861 and 1868.Great Expectations is set among marshes in Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s. The novel depicts the personal development of Philip Pirrip, an orphan nicknamed Pip. It has a cast of other characters who have entered popular culture: the bitter and excentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful Estella, the generous blacksmith Joe Gargery and Abel Magwitch, the very human convict. Pip lives with his older short-tempered sister, Georgiana Maria, and her husband, Joe. One day, while visiting the graves of his mother, father and siblings, Pip, who is about seven years old, encounters the escaped convict Magwitch. Soon after, he visits the mysterious Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter, Estella. Both events will impact his later life. Confronted with changes and desires, Pip is eager to grow, learn and achieve even what seems hopelessly beyond his reach...Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’s last completed novel, a work of his artistic maturity and a classic of Victorian literature. Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language. —John Irving

A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of Great Expectations.Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material tosupport their courses and essay writing on how the film versionsprovide different readings of the original text.Focussing on David Lean's film of Great Expectations, thebook discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themesand dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screenand how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text.There are numerous excerpts from the literary text, screenplays andshooting scripts, with suggestions for comparison. The book alsofeatures quotations from authors, screenwriters, directors, critics andothers linked with the chosen film and text.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Great Expectations by Charles Dickens belongs to a mature period of writer’s creativity. The author’s criticism is pointed at the empty and very often dishonest life of gentlemen which is opposed to a plain existence of ordinary workers. The autobiographic motives can be seen in the story of the main character. Dickens put a lot of his own hesitations and his grief to this novel. At first, he had in mind a tragic ending and led the story to it. However, he knew what his readers preferred, so he didn’t choose to finish Great Expectations with their complete destruction. Notable works by Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby A Christmas Carol David Copperfield Bleak House Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations