She has adopted Estella and raised her as a vampire slayer, to seek revenge on the supernatural creatures that she blames for her ruin. Pip is sent to reside with Miss Havisham, a vampire who was sired and left on her wedding day by the one she loved. Too afraid to do anything other than obey the stranger’s instruction, Pip helps this convict and sets in motion of chain of events that will forever change the course of his life.

One fateful night, visiting his parents’ grave under the full moon, Pip encounters a frightening stranger-another werewolf and a convict no less. In this reimagining of Charles Dickens’s classic, Great Expectations, Pip is an orphaned young werewolf living with his ill-tempered sister and her gentle husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery.

We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reading group guide for An Atlas of Impossible Longing includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world¼s finest books to their full potential. A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experienceĮnriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context A chronology of the author's life and work A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information As with many of Dickens's other novels, Oliver Twist is a darkly comic narrative whose sarcastic tone brings into sharp relief the social hypocrisy of the day. The story centers around Oliver's inheritance, and is an indictment of the British Poor Laws, which allowed for the proliferation of such social evils as workhouses and child labor.

Through a series of accidental events, he finds himself caught up with a gang of criminals, including such memorable characters as the Artful Dodger, Fagin, and Bill Sykes. Oliver is a poor orphan living in 19th century London. This darkly satiric indictment of the social ills of Victorian London tells the story of a young orphan who becomes involved with a gang of criminals.

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