دانلود رمان انگلیسی “انتظارات بزرگ”

On 24 October 1860, soon after moving into his new house in Gad’s Hill, Dickens wrote to Wilkie Collins describing how he had dealt with rumours that a ghost was haunting the neighbourhood: Time, 9 o’Clock. Village talk and credulity, amazing. I armed the two boys with a stout stick apiece, and shouldered my double-barrelled gun, well loaded with shot. ‘Now observe,’ says I to the domestics, ‘if anybody is playing tricks, and has got a head, I’ll blow it off.’ Immense impression. New groom evidently convinced that he has entered the service of a blood thirsty demon. We ascend to the Monument. Stop at the gate. Moon is rising. Heavy shadows. ‘Now, look out!’ (from the bloody thirsty demon in a loud distinct voice). ‘If the ghost is here and I see him, so help me God I’ll fire at him!’ Suddenly, as we enter the field, a most extraordinary noise responds––human noise––and yet super-human noise. B. T. D. brings piece to shoulder. . . . Noise repeated––portentous, derisive, dull, dismal, damnable. We advance towards the sound. Something white comes lumbering through the darkness.––An asthmatic sheep!––dead, as I judge, by this time. . . . Drama ends with Discovery of No One, and Triumphant return to Rum and Water.