Great Expectations

Notes

  1. ^ Bleak House alternates between a third-person narrator and a first-person narrator, Esther Summerson, but the former is predominant.
  2. ^ Nineteen double sheets folded in half: on the left, names, incidents, and expressions; on the right, sections of the current chapter.
  3. ^ George Gissing wrote: "Great Expectations (1861) would be nearly perfect in its mechanism but for the unhappy deference to Lord Lytton's judgment, which caused the end to be altered. Dickens meant to have left Pip a lonely man, and of course rightly so; by the irony of fate he was induced to spoil his work through a brother novelist's desire for a happy ending, a strange thing, indeed, to befall Dickens."
  4. ^ In Great Expectations, only London is named, along with its neighbourhoods and surrounding communities.
  5. ^ From Latin satis, meaning "enough".
  6. ^ Original quote in French: "un monde que dominent l'appât de l'argent et les préjugés sociaux conduit à la mutilation de l'être, aux discordes de famille, à la guerre entre homme et femme, et ne saurait conduire à quelque bonheur que ce soit".
  7. ^ Marx and Engels condemned the rejection of Carlyle's democratic system but agreed that the aristocracy remains the dominant class.
  8. ^ Original text in French: "vagabond de Dieu honni des hommes, lépreux porteur de la bonne nouvelle"
  9. ^ Cairo was of course not a British colony at this time, though Egypt became a British protectorate in the 1880s

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