Great Expectations
Contributors: Robin Gilmour (Editor)
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Everyman
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780460873352
Copyright date: 1994
Description: Plucked from obscurity as a blacksmith's apprentice by a mysterious benefactor, Pip receives a gentleman's education in the London of the 1820s. He leaves behind Joe, the gentle giant, and his sharp-tongued sister, Mrs Joe, as he begins a new life of idleness. Only two others move between these contrasting worlds: Jaggers, the sinister lawyer who acts for Pip's benefactor, and Estella, the beautiful adopted daughter of rich Miss Havisham. Each of them shows Pip a different London -- the cells of Newgate where Jaggers plies his trade and the society drawing rooms where Estella is courted by the insufferable Bentley Drummle. But can Estella possibly be part of Pip's 'great expectations'?

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