... on English novelists, bearing in mind that, to some extent at least, a dialogue was ongoing between the writers of that period. Charles Dickens" Great Expectations (1861) tells the story of a boy's journey from the Kent countryside where he was brought up to the city of London, his adventures, successes ... means of the author's physical description of the landscape but also through his descriptions of its inhabitants. Pip's first human encounter in the novel is with an escaped convict, Magwitch, who demands that Pip get for him food and a file to remove his chains. Although Magwitch la...

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