num_pages: 512
description: See alternate cover edition hereDickens's magnificent novel of guilt, desire, and redemption The orphan Pip’s terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prelude to his “great expectations.” How Pip comes into a fortune, what he does with it, and what he discovers through his secret benefactor are the ingredients of his struggle for moral redemption.
language: English
title: Great Expectations
titlecomplete: Great Expectations
characters: Estella, Herbert Pocket, Dolge Orlick, John Wemmick, Jaggers, Compeyson, Philip "Pip" Pirrip, Abel Magwitch, Joseph "Joe" Gargery, Miss Havisham
genres: Historical Fiction, School, Novels, Literature, Victorian, Classic Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 778156
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: Penguin Books