"Reader's Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any
advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and
influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh
critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close
reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide
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commonly studied classic texts. "Great Expectations" (1861) is not
only one of the last great novels to be written by Dickens but is
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childhood in relationship to adult life, concepts of guilt and
imprisonment and an analysis of individualism as opposed to the
increasing bureaucracy of nineteenth-century England. This guide is
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