... published in thirty-six weekly installments in "All Year Round." The opening is therefore very important because in a serial the reader must be instantly engaged and stimulated to continue reading. Dickens uses a variety of narrative features that does this very successfully which is evident from a close reading from the opening scene of "Great Expectations." The novel immediately introduces Philip Pirrip, who ... calls himself Pip as he explains, as the narrator of the novel in two different ways. Dickens enforces that Pip is the most important character in the novel as it is his story ...

• Word Count: 1038
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. Most of the stories ... an immigrant in Canada, but focused instead on the uneventful lives of a group of Parsis who live in a ramshackle Bombay apartment block. While some readers interpreted the collec...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. Most of the stories ... an immigrant in Canada, but focused instead on the uneventful lives of a group of Parsis who live in a ramshackle Bombay apartment block. While some readers interpreted the collec...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate