... became a universal icon, prompting the nostalgic worldwide spectacles of the Golden and Diamond Jubilees in 1887 and 1897. When Victoria died in 1901, after the longest reign in English history, a newspaper wrote: "Few of us, perhaps, have realized till now how large a part she had in the life of everyone of us; how the thread of her life [bound] the warp ... which the most famous was Mudie's. Eventually, the "three-deckers" were made available in less expensive form, "cheap editions" and "railway editions," the equivalent of modern paperbacks, distributed through national chains of boo...

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Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens around the time of 1860-1861 and was initially written as a periodical for a newspaper. The story centres around Pip, who is the main character of the book, and is written in the style of first person narrative. The book is written from the viewpoint ... and the gibbet. The beacon is what the sailors would steer by. Pip describes this as "an ugly thing when you were near it". The gibbet was an object with chains which had once held a pirate and Pip makes the comparison of the convict "limping on towards this latter, as if he were the pirate c...

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• Grade Level: High School