The Connell Guide To Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
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Introduction; A summary of the plot; What is Great Expectations about? What makes the opening scenes so powerful? Is Pip a snob? Why does Pip feel so drawn to Satis House? How real is Pip's love for Estella? What is the significance of Magwitch? How corrupt is the world Dickens shows us in Great Expectations? Is Orlick Pip's "double"? Is Great Expectations a misogynist novel? How plausible is the ending of the novel? With what view of life does Great Expectations leave us? A Short Chronology

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John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus, UCL, and has for many years been a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books and writes and reviews widely in the UK and US.

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'I only wish an accessible and insightful guide like this had been available to me as a teenager, encountering Dickens for the first time and missing so much which Sutherland and Connell brilliantly identify and explain.' Sir Max Hastings

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