Great ExpectationsBuilding on the formula of York Notes, this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. The notes enable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking. Key features include: study methods; an introduction to the text; summaries with critical notes; themes and techniques; textual analysis of key passages; author biography; historical and literary background; modern and historical critical approaches; chronology; and glossary of literary terms. |
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arrival Barnard's Inn become a gentleman Biddy Chapter 15 Chapter 29 characters Charles Dickens childhood Christmas clothes coach comic Compeyson convict criminal D.H. Lawrence death Dickens's dress Drummle E.M. Forster escape essay Estella final forge Further Reading Geoffrey Chaucer George George Orwell gives Pip guilty hand Hulks humour imagery Jaggers's office Jane Austen Joe and Biddy's knows leg-iron Little Britain little Pip London Chapter Magwitch manner marriage marry marshes Matthew Pocket meets Estella Miss Havisham Miss Havisham hanging moral mysterious narrative narrator Newgate novel older Pip Orlick Philip Pirrip Pip feels Pip goes Pip returns Pip tells Pip's Pip's story plot portable property pound notes Pumblechook readers recognises Satis House seems Selected Poems shows sluicehouse social Startop suggests symbolic T.S. Eliot takes Tale Geoffrey Chaucer tells Pip Thomas Hardy Victorian visit to Satis Walworth Wemmick William Shakespeare Wopsle Wopsle's York Notes young Pip