Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Great Expectations

6 Anmeldelser

3

Længde
20T 5M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Romaner

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming of age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.

Dickens originally intended Great Expectations to be twice as long, but constraints imposed by the management of All the Year Round limited the novel's length. Collected and dense, with a conciseness unusual for Dickens, the novel represents Dickens's peak and maturity as an author. According to G. K. Chesterton, Dickens penned Great Expectations in 'the afternoon of his life and fame.'

Great Expectations is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid 1800s. From the outset, the reader is 'treated' by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships, 'the hulks,' barriers and chains, and fights to the death. It therefore combines intrigue and unexpected twists of autobiographical detail in different tones. Regardless of its narrative technique, the novel reflects the events of the time, Dickens's concerns, and the relationship between society and man.

Dickens felt Great Expectations was his best work. Great Expectations has a colourful cast that has entered popular culture: the capricious Miss Havisham, the cold and beautiful Estella, Joe the kind and generous blacksmith, the dry and sycophantic Uncle Pumblechook, Mr Jaggers, Wemmick with his dual personality, and the eloquent and wise friend, Herbert Pocket. Throughout the narrative, typical Dickensian themes emerge: wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations has become very popular and is now taught as a classic in many English classes. It has been translated into many languages and adapted many times in film and other media.

© 2015 Anncona Media AB (Lydbog): 9789176052068

Release date

Lydbog: 1. januar 2015

Andre kan også lide...

  1. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
  3. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
  4. A Room Of One's Own Virginia Woolf
  5. David Copperfield Charles Dickens
  6. CATCH-22 Joseph Heller
  7. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
  8. The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
  9. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
  10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
  11. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
  12. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
  13. The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
  14. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel Milan Kundera
  15. The Song of Achilles: A Novel Madeline Miller
  16. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
  17. We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
  18. The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien
  19. The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
  20. Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  21. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
  22. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
  23. The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
  24. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
  25. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
  26. Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman
  27. Metaphysics Aristotle
  28. Middlemarch George Eliot
  29. Herzog Saul Bellow
  30. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text William S. Burroughs
  31. Les Misérables Victor Hugo
  32. The Strange Library Haruki Murakami
  33. The Dutch House: A Novel Ann Patchett
  34. 1984 Anna Lea
  35. Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson
  36. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution R. F. Kuang
  37. The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
  38. The Road Cormac McCarthy
  39. Magpie Murders: A Novel Anthony Horowitz
  40. My Dark Vanessa: A Novel Kate Elizabeth Russell
  41. The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
  42. Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom: A Story Sylvia Plath
  43. The Bookshop on the Corner: A Novel Jenny Colgan
  44. Mr Nobody Catherine Steadman
  45. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The 42nd Anniversary Edition of Douglas Adams's International Bestseller Douglas Adams
  46. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis