num_pages: 512
description: 'Pip's expectation, before his expectations, is that he will be shown to have a!ready committed a crime,' writes David Trotter in his Introduction to this new edition. 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.Great Expectations was pubiished in three volumes in July 1861. According to Swinburne: 'This was the author's last great work, the defects in it are as nearly imperceptible as spots on the sun or shadows on a sunlit sea.'
language: English
title: Great Expectations
titlecomplete: Great Expectations
characters: Abel Magwitch, Philip "Pip" Pirrip, Joseph "Joe" Gargery, Herbert Pocket, John Wemmick, Dolge Orlick, Jaggers, Miss Havisham, Estella, Compeyson
genres: Literature, British Literature, Classics, School, Novels, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 778221
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: Penguin Books