গ্রেট এক্সপেকটেশন

Summary

বাবা-মা হারা এক এতিম ছেলে পিপ। সে থাকে তার বােনের বাড়িতে আর কাজ করে বােনজামাইয়ের কামারশালায়। দিন কেটে যায় এভাবেই। হঠাই একদিন লন্ডন থেকে এক আইনজীবী এলেন পিপদের বাড়িতে। নাম না-জানা এক রহস্যময় ব্যক্তি পিপের ভরণপােষণ করতে আগ্রহী। শুধু তা-ই নয়, তিনি চান পিপকে অঢেল ধনসম্পদের মালিক করে দিতে। কে এই দয়ালু ভদ্রলােক? কী তার পরিচয়? এক বুক আশা নিয়ে পিপ রওয়ানা হলাে লন্ডনের পথে।

Author

চার্লস ডিকেন্স

Charles John Huffam Dickens (চার্লস ডিকেন্স , 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age.[9] His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens’s creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.