Great Expectations
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Ware, Hertfordshire
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781853260049
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Classic fiction; Literature: Classics; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Classics; Literature & Fiction
Description: Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, the orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man of depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters, among whom are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all — the truth about himself.