Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel.
A reissue of the three-volume first book edition (1861) of one of Dickens' greatest novels.
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The orphaned Pip is serving as a blacksmith's apprentice when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
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Dickens' account of the rises and relapses of an orphan whose expectations and ambitions are greatly shaped and transformed by a mysterious benefactor.
How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor, snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and 'great expectations', and grows through misfortune and suffering to maturity is the theme of one of Dickens's best loved novels. ...
The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.
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The novel can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people.The main plot of Great Expectations takes place between Christmas Eve 1812, when the protagonist is ...
The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.
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Great Expectations: Easyread Comfort Edition
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“Move around,” my sister says. “I can't.” “Yes, move around. I'll hold you.” My sister, Lynn, helps me stand. I hope every woman who ever gives birth has a sister with hands like my sister's hands. They are bigger than mine and stronger ...