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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Great_ExpectationsGreat Expectations - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.

   • Author: Charles Dickens

   • Publish Year: 1860

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   2 days ago · On 12 October 1984 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attempted to assassinate members of the British government, including the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. Five people were killed, including the Conservative MP Sir Anthony Berry; more than thirty people were injured.

4. www.bbc.co.uk › news › articlesChristopher Columbus's DNA to shed light on his origins

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   5 days ago · The widely accepted theory is that he was born in Genoa, in 1451, to a family of wool weavers. In 1492, he led an expedition backed by Spain’s Catholic Monarchs seeking to...

5. www.spiked-online.com › 2024/10/15 › whats-soWhat’s so triggering about The Canterbury Tales? - spiked

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   1 day ago · The trigger warning is meant as a big red flag to literature students, telling them not to enjoy Chaucer’s Tales. They must not laugh at the bawdiness or grimace at the murders. They must hold ...

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   1 day ago · The nearest place in the direction of Royal George Aqueduct is Geoffrey Dickens Lock No 31W; ½ furlongs away.

7. worldhistorycommons.org › dickens-tale-two-citiesDickens, Tale of Two Cities | World History Commons

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   4 days ago · Dickens, Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens’s (1812–70) novels generally appeared in serial form in popular newspapers. Usually he took his subjects and characters from contemporary English society, but in this novel he created one of the most enduring and pessimistic English–language portrayals of the French Revolution, particularly the ...

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   What is Dickens' philosophy?

   • The philosophy expressed here by Dickens, that of a person happy with their contribution to the welfare of society, is in line with Thomas Carlyle 's theories and his condemnation, in Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), of the system of social classes flourishing in idleness, much like that of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

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   How does Dickens describe London?

   • Dickens uses imagery to reinforce his ideas and London, the paradise of the rich and of the ideal of the gentleman, has mounds of filth, it is crooked, decrepit, and greasy, a dark desert of bricks, soot, rain, and fog. The surviving vegetation is stunted, and confined to fenced-off paths, without air or light.

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   Are Charles Dickens illustrations mediocre?

   • According to Paul Schlicke, these illustrations are mediocre yet were included in the Charles Dickens edition, and Stone created illustrations for Dickens's subsequent novel, Our Mutual Friend.

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   How does Dickens compare the new generation to Joe Gargery?

   • However, by tracing the origins of Pip's "great expectations" to crime, deceit and even banishment to the colonies, Dickens unfavourably compares the new generation to the previous one of Joe Gargery, which Dickens portrays as less sophisticated but especially rooted in sound values, presenting an oblique criticism of his time.

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   Why did Dickens rewrite Great Expectations?

   • On 11 June 1861, Dickens wrote to Macready that Great Expectations had been completed and on 15 June, asked the editor to prepare the novel for publication. Following comments by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that the ending was too sad, Dickens rewrote it prior to publication.

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   Who wrote Dickens' Great Expectations?

   • EDDIE IZZARD PERFORMS DICKENS' GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023. Charles Dickens (1999), Edgar Rosenberg (ed.), Great Expectations', Norton critical edition (authoritative text ed.), New York: W W Norton, ISBN 978-039396069-3 Barbara Hardy (1952), Dickens and the Twentieth Century.

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9. tomknighton.substack.com › p › ill-show-them-triggeredI'll show them 'triggered' - by Tom Knighton

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   22 hours ago · The Mail on Sunday reported at the weekend that the University of Nottingham is warning students that Geoffrey Chaucer’s epic poem contains ‘expressions of Christian faith’. The Canterbury Tales – as anyone with even a passing knowledge of literature knows – follows a group of pilgrims as they entertain each other with stories on their way to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket ...