num_pages: 469
description: One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman.From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide.Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist’s bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions.This edition includes Dickens’s original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.
language: English
title: Great Expectations
titlecomplete: Great Expectations
characters: Abel Magwitch, Herbert Pocket, Dolge Orlick, Joseph "Joe" Gargery, Miss Havisham, Philip "Pip" Pirrip, Estella, Compeyson, Jaggers, John Wemmick
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Victorian, School
ratings_count: 778178
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: Everyman's Library