المراجعة التحريرية | " Great Expectations may be called a novel without a hero ... In [it] Dickens was really trying to be a quiet, a detached, and even a cynical observer of human life. "- GK Chesterton " Great Expectations . "He is trying to be reasonable; but in spite of himself he is inspired." - GK Chesterton " Great Expectations. Dickens tell [s] a universal story of human passions, mutual exploitation, selfishness, self-delusion, and selflessness. [It] is the subtlest and most profound, as well as the most triumphantly achieved, of all his great novels. "-From the Introduction by Michael Slater |
عن المؤلف | Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and When he was condemned the Marshela Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreed that His experiences as a child alone in a huge city-cold, isolated with barely enough to eat-haunted him for the rest of his life. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after what he became an office boy, a freelance reporter and finally an author. With Pickwick Papers (1836-7) he achieved immediate fame; in a few years he was easily the post And Respected Writer Popular Of His Time. It Has Been Estimated That One Out Of Every Ten Persons In Victorian England Was A Dickens Reader. Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9) And The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) Huge Successes Were. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4) Was Less So, But Dickens Followed It With His Unforgettable, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852-3), Hard Times (1854) and Little Dorrit (1855-7) reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British Society. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) complete his major Works. Dickens'S Marriage To Catherine Hoggarth Produced Ten Children But Ended In Separation In 1858. In That Year He Began A Series Of Exhausting Public Readings;. His Health Gradually Declined After Putting In A Full Day'S Work At His Home At Gads Hill, Kent On June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke, and he died the following day. |