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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
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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...
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Adventures in extreme reading volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Uncle Dan is back, and with him is the beautiful Tempest St. Cloud with a promise of unlimited funding--but Carter's cousin Isabelle is suspicious, and when a demonstration excursion into Great expectations results in zombies and murderers Carter does not know what to think.
3) Mister Pip
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Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with almost everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations. While artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures...
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[1999]
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"This Norton Critical Edition, edited by the pioneer of Great Expectations scholarship, presents the most thorough textual edition of the novel (1861) available. The newly established text is based on all extant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays. Backgrounds provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included....