Presents the classic story of the orphan Pip, the convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered Miss Havisham
Great Expectations tells the unforgettable story of the orphan Pip and his coming of age with the help of a mysterious benefactor.
An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England.
This is the first and still-definitive account of the origins, impact, culture, and future of the baby-boom generation, the most influential in American history.
This novel, whose hero Pip is an orphan, reads more like a detective story. The story opens with little Pip meeting an escaped convict in the churchyard on a cold December evening in an almost surreal setting.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a real classic.
Even if an individual entered the white-collar ranks, he still faced enormous pressures to advance and succeed. Supplying increased demands necessitated continual striving. This was difficult enough for relatively successful businessmen ...
The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch.
The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process – one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference.
The book was published serially in the journal All the Year Round in 1860-61 and issued in book form in 1861. The novel traces the prospects of a poor young man - Pip - who is educated as a gentleman of "great expectations.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.