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ad es ..HARLES DICKENS wrote
Great Expectations, as he did
many of his. major works, as a Serialized novel published in regular
magazine installments. Often, Dickens was just one jump ahead of his
weekly deadlinas; most of Great Expectations was in print wall before
he began work on the final chapters. Released in 1867, late in Dickens’
careor, the novel captured the popular imagination as no other work
had done. Like his later novels, Great Expectations is deop, brooding
and uncompromising, mirroring his growing concerns about life in
Victorian England. At the time, poverty was rampant, the poor were
often jailed in dabtors’ prisons, the gap between the lower and middle
classos was. ever-widening, and the national dostiny was determined by
a dispassionate, woalthy few. Not publicly outspoken, Dickens used his,
writing to argue for social change, The world of Great Expectations is
peopled by characters bearing Dickens’ unmistakable genius for
caricature, but they are portrayed in a new and questioning light.
Through the beok’s principal character, Pip, Dickens presents the
ambivalence of the age-old fight of good against evil, Pip is not simply a
young man of native goodness who Is thrown on adversity and finally
pravails, but a complicated mixture of good and bad. Good eventually
triumphs, as Pip learns that material wealth does not nocessarily bring
spiritual Woalth, becomes awaro of his power to shape his own fate,
and realizes thal virlue comes not {rom outward appearance but from
inner merit. On a simpler level, Great Expectations is a compelling
portrait of adolescence, capturing the newfound awe and frustration of
a young man as ho comes of age, and begins to recognize the many
possibilities that life presents. The final scene of this adaptation is
based upon a combination of two toxts: the original ending, a somber
passage which adheres to the book's moral jassons, and a second, less
melancholy closing, which Dickens hoped would mako the story more
acceptable to his readers.
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B WEL LET THAT RUINED PLACE. (Qe HARLES DICKENS was born
on February 7, 1812, in
Landport, Partsea, England. The second of eight children born to a
family continually troubled by dobi, the young Dickens experienced
hunger and privation, When his penniless father was imprisoned,
Dickens learned firsthand of the horrors of the infamous debtors’
prisons and the anguish of toiling in sweatshops. Racollactions of this
painful period inspired most of David Copperfield and much of Dickens’
other fiction. Good fortune — a bequest — finally brought release from
the family's financial burdens, and afforded Dickens the opportunity of
two yoars of formal schooling at Wollington House Academy, Dickens
worked as an ottice clark and newspaper roportor until his Sketches by
Boz (1836) and Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him acclaim and
success. Through the years, Dickens edited a number of literary
periodicals; many of his most papular works were written and published
in installments to holp keep the magazines solvent, Amang those
novels first published in serial form were Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas
Nickleby (1838-1839), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Coppertield
(1849-1850), Bleak House (1852-1853), Hard Times (1854), Little
Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great
Expectations (1860-1861). In 1858, the pressure of serial writing,
editorial duties, lectures and social commitments led to his separation
{rom Catherine Hogarth and the end of 23 yoars of marriage, Tho
strains also hastened Dickens' death on June 9, 1870, at the age of 58,
as ha labored on The Mystery of Edwin Drood,
ICK GEARY was born in
1946 in Kansas City,
and was reared in Wichita, Kansas. He attended the University of
Kansas in Lawrence, obtaining degrees in art and film. He freelanced in
San Diego for twolve years, and was published in National Lampoon,
Heavy Metal, Epic lustrated, Raw and othar graphic story magazines.
Geaty has published four collections: At Home With Rick Geary, A
Treasury of Victorian Murder, Rick Geary's Oddities, and Junior Carrot
Pavol. In 1988, alter completing Murder at the Hollywood Hotel, his first
animated {ilm, he moved to New York. His work has also appearad in
Rolling Stone and the New York Times Book Review, and is syndicated
toa variety of publications. Chartes Dickens’ bittersweet
novel, Great Expectations, is the
tale of one boy's adolescence, and of the choices ha makes to shape
his destiny. Into an engrossing mystery, Dickens weaves a heartfalt
inquiry into morals and vinues — as the orphan Pip, the convict
Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, the bitter Miss Havisham, tho
goodhearted Biddy, the kind Joe and other memorable charactors
@ntwine in a battle of human nature, Rick Geary’s delightful illustrations
capture the newlound awe and frustrations of young Pip as he comes
of ago, and bogins to understand the opportunities that life presents.
Watch for these other great
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED!
The Raven and Other Poems — Edgar Allan Pos
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson
Moby Dick — Herman Melville
Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll
The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hamiet — William Shakespeare
The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
The Island of Dr, Moreau — H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain
The Call of the Wild — Jack London
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