Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
โ Scribed by Dennis Butts (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 89
- Series
- Macmillan Master Guides
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Charles Dickens: Life and Background....Pages 1-5
Summaries and Critical Commentary....Pages 7-34
Themes and Issues....Pages 35-42
Technical Features....Pages 43-66
Specimen Passage and Commentary....Pages 67-73
Critical Reception....Pages 75-79
Back Matter....Pages 81-84
โฆ Subjects
British and Irish Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature
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