Name: Les grandes espérances (in French)
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Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781502437402

portada Les grandes espérances (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Translated by

Charles Bernard-Derosne

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

594

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x3 cm

Weight

0.78 kg.

ISBN13

9781502437402

Synopsis "Les grandes espérances (in French)"

Elevé, à la mort de ses parents, par le redoutable dragon domestique que le Ciel lui a donné pour soeur, Pip (Philip Pirrip) semble promis à l'existence obscure d'un jeune villageois sans fortune. C'est compter sans la bienveillance des divinités tutélaires qui veillent sur son enfance. Car Pip a le privilège de vivre au milieu de créatures singulières dont l'existence seule accrédite la croyance au miracle: il y a tout d'abord le sourire débonnaire, l'amitié protectrice et complice de son beau-frère, le forgeron Joe Gargery, puis la rencontre terrifiante mais bientôt miraculeuse d'Abel Magwitch, forçat au grand coeur, émule de Jean Valjean, qui saura lui rendre au centuple son modeste bienfait. Mais il y a surtout la pittoresque Miss Havisham et son éblouissante protégée, Estella. Estella au nom prédestiné, dont la froide et fascinante beauté exalte et désespère tout à la fois le jeune Pip: J'ai regardé les étoiles et j'ai pensé que ce serait affreux pour un homme en train de mourir de soif de tourner son visage vers elles et de ne trouver ni secours ni pitié dans cette multitude scintillante. Car les grandes espérances qui portent le jeune Pip ne sont pas les aspirations prosaïques de l'Angleterre victorienne, sa recherche du confort ou de la respectabilité, mais bien les puissances du rêve qui nous font chercher le bonheur au-delà de la Sagesse.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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