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Great Expectations (Vintage Classics)

by Charles Dickens

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Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations between his terrifying experience in a graveyard with a convict named Magwitch and his humiliating visits with the eccentric Miss Havisham's beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, who torments him until he is elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can't buy. Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language, according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens's abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.

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Synopsis:

Pips life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals. His desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella, but secrets from the past impede his progress and he has many hard lessons to learn.
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About the Author

Charles Dickens was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era and is known for such novels as The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities. F.W. Pailthorpe provided illustrations for the original edition of Great Expectations.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780099511571
Author:
Dickens, Charles
Publisher:
Random House (UK)
Illustrator:
Pailthorpe, F.W.
Author:
Pailthorpe, F.W.
Subject:
Classics
Copyright:
2008
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
Vintage Classics
Publication Date:
May 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
YES
Pages:
460
Dimensions:
7.82x5.40x1.27 in. .89 lbs.
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