1. Great Expectations Chapter 39 Charles Dickens(1812-1870) 乐山师范学院外国语学院 许晓琴 教授、博士

3. Brief Introduction to Charles Dickens Charles Dickens(1812-1870) was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters.

4. Charles Dickens was born at Landport, in Portsea, on February 7, 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. He was the second of their eight children. His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay-office, His childhood, like many of those portrayed in his novels, was not particularly happy, mainly due to his father's inability to stay out of debt. This led to his father's imprisonment in Prison in 1824, and Dickens being sent to work in a blacking warehouse, Memories of this time haunted him for the rest of his life

5. Notable works Novels The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837) The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839) The Old Curiosity Shop (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 25 April 1840, to 6 February 1841) Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 13 February 1841, to 27 November 1841)

6. The Christmas books A Christmas Carol (1843) The Chimes (1844) The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) The Battle of Life (1846) The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844)

7. Dombey and Son (Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848) David Copperfield (Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850) Bleak House (Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853) Hard Times: For These Times (Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854) Little Dorrit (Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857) A Tale of Two Cities (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859) Great Expectations (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861) Our Mutual Friend (Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870. Only six of twelve planned numbers completed)

8. Short story collections Sketches by Boz (1836) The Mudfog Papers (1837) in Bentley's Miscellany magazine Reprinted Pieces (1861) The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–1869)

9. Christmas numbers of Household Words magazine: What Christmas Is, as We Grow Older (1851) A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (1852) Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (1853) The Seven Poor Travellers (1854) The Holly-Tree Inn (1855) The Wreck of the "Golden Mary" (1856) The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) A House to Let (1858)

10. Christmas numbers of All the Year Round magazine: The Haunted House (1859) A Message From the Sea (1860) Tom Tiddler's Ground (1861) Somebody's Luggage (1862) Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings (1863) Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy (1864) Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (1865) Mugby Junction (1866) No Thoroughfare (1867)

11. Selected non-fiction, poetry, and plays The Village Coquettes (Plays, 1836) The Fine Old English Gentleman (poetry, 1841) Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838) American Notes: For General Circulation (1842) Pictures from Italy (1846) The Life of Our Lord: As written for his children (1849) A Child's History of England (1853) The Frozen Deep (play, 1857) Speeches, Letters and Sayings (1870)

12. Charles Dickens published over a dozen major novels, a large number of short stories (including a number of Christmas-themed stories), a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books. Dickens's novels were initially serialised in weekly and monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats.

13. Memorials of Charles Dickens An 1839 portrait of a young Charles Dickens

14. Painting of Dickens in Boston 1842

15. Sketch of Dickens in 1842 during American Tour Sketch of Dickens' sister Fanny bottom left

16. Photograph of Charles Dickens 1852

18. Dickens painted by Ary Scheffer, 1855.

19. At his desk in 1858

20. Photograph of Dickens, New York, 1867

21. Photograph of Dickens taken by Jeremiah Gurney, 1867-1868

22. Great Expectations Summary Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times. Great Expectations is written in the first person from the point of view of the orphan Pip. The novel, like much of Dickens's work, draws on his experiences of life and people.

23. Main Characters in Great Expectations Pip, an orphan and the protagonist of Great Expectations. Throughout his childhood, Pip thought that he was going to be trained as a blacksmith, but with Magwitch's anonymous patronage, Pip travels to London and becomes a gentleman.

24. Abel Magwitch is a fictional character from Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel Great Expectations

26. Joe Gargery, Pip's brother-in-law, a blacksmith who is always kind to Pip and the only person with whom Pip is always honest. Mrs. Joe Gargery, Pip's hot-tempered adult sister, who raises him after the death of their parents but complains constantly of the burden Pip is to her.

27. Miss Havisham, wealthy spinster who takes Pip on as a companion. She later apologizes to him as she's overtaken by guilt. He accepts her apology and she is badly burnt when her dress catches a flame from a spark which leapt from the fire. Pip saves her, but she later dies from her injuries.

28. Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, whom Pip pursues romantically throughout the novel.

29. Appreciation of Great Expectations

30. Assignment Read through Chapter 39,Great Expectations with your partner and try your best to translate it into Chinese.