num_pages: 480
description: Introduction by George Bernard Shaw • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s  The Great American ReadPip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. 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 happiness money can’t buy. “ Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language,” according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, “ Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.” INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE
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: 778192
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: The Modern Library New York