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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to live a life of wealth and respectability. Over the course of the tale, in which Pip encounters such famous characters as Miss Havisham, Herbert Pocket and Joe Gargery, he comes to realize that his money is tainted and the girl he loves will not return his affections; happiness must be found in the things he gave up in pursuit of a more ...  | |||||||
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One of Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, "Great Expectations" tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to live a life of wealth and respectability. Over the course of the tale, in which Pip encounters such famous characters as Miss Havisham, Herbert Pocket and Joe Gargery, he comes to realise that his money is tainted and the girl he loves will not return his affections; happiness must be found in the things he gave up in pursuit of a ... | |||||||
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Considered 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' ... | |||||||
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There are films of this story. ... "The marshes beyond the churchyard were grey. The river beyond the marshes was a darker line of grey. A bitter wind was blowing across the marshes from the sea. The graveyard was a dark and frightening place. I shivered. Cold and afraid, I began to cry. "Quiet, you little devil!" cried a terrible voice. "Keep still - or I'll cut your throat". "Oh, don't cut my throat, sir!" I cried. "Please don't!". "Tell me your name," the man growled. "Tell me. Quick!". "Pip, sir. Pip," I answered." From the ... | |||||||
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Proceedings of the 2007 BSBS and BASA Annual Conference South-Western University "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad. Bulgaria 9-12 November 2007 ... This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the conference of the Bulgarien Society for British Studies (BSBS) which took place on 9-12 November 2007 at the "Neofit Rilski" SWU, Blagoevgrad. ... | |||||||
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The novella "1 Prague. Outside", places the Scottish protagonistamongst a group of foreign, largely English, migrant workers in the Czech capital during the 1990's. The city is booming and confident and the Anglophone gastarbeiter are having the time of their lives. All apart from our man who cannot come to terms with his existential angst and his disdain at all around him, all that is except his Scots-Canadian brethren to whom he passes an authentic piece of Scotland. Bryan Stewart runs the Scottish Cultural Centre and Caledonian School of English in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he lives with his wife, ... | |||||||
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. "The Great Gatsby" lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his wild parties. But Jay Gatsby doesn't heed them. He cares for one person alone - Daisy Buchanan, the woman ... | |||||||
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Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and others. Introduction by Mike Ashley. ... Fans of horror and the supernatural will savor the dark delicacies in this spine-tingling anthology of the genre's very best. Featuring an international gallery of the world's great horror writers, this collection celebrates one of literature's most popular forms of fiction with 14 masterfully crafted tales of terror. "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." H. P. Lovecraft ... | |||||||
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The Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan: These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with all its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable. The ... | |||||||
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Quick reads by great writers. This book is a special edition of "Quick Reads" series. ... "To buy books would be a good thing", observed Arthur Schopenhauer, "if we also could buy the time to read them". All devoted readers long for more time to spend with their books, and the next best thing to buying time is making the most of the available moments. "Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers" offers that opportunity. An outstanding collection of 30 brilliant short stories, each just six or fewer pages in length, it provides the chance to absorb an entire story (or ... | |||||||
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Twelve of the finest short stories by great French writers comprise this excellent collection, with themes that range from desire and psychological intrigue to the mysteries of failure and success. Classic explorations of passion, terror and fate, these enduring literary gems will be invaluable to student and teachers and a joy for anyone who delights in fine writing. ... |
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