Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The ultimate coming of age story from Charles Dickens, Great Expectations tells of the rise of the book's narrator, Pip.
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel.
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.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,-Mrs.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a real classic.
In this unflaggingly suspenseful story of aspirations and moral redemption, humble, orphaned Pip, a ward of his short-tempered older sister and her husband, Joe, is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a ...
Great Expectations
Great Expectations tells the unforgettable story of the orphan Pip and his coming of age with the help of a mysterious benefactor.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
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.
Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance.
Great Expectations
This edition use the text of the Clarendon edition, with a new Introduction and Explanatory Notes.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a real classic.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a real classic.
Pip, a young orphan living with his sister and her husband in the marshes of Kent, sits in a cemetery one evening looking at his parents' tombstones. Suddenly, an escaped...
Full of unforgettable characters—including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the ...
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.