Great expectations
By: Charles Dickens ; [adapted by May Ellen Snodgrass]
Contributors: Snodgrass, May Ellen; Burwell, Ted, illustrator
Series: An Adapted classic
Publisher: Globe Fearson
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Englewood Cliff, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780835902588
Subjects: Social life and customs; Orphans; Readers (Adult); Fiction; Social history; Social conditions; Young men; Manners and customs; Readers for new literates
Description: The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.
Notes: Text illustrations: Ted Burwell.

"This adaptation follows the original ... lengthy descriptions have been shortened, the vocabulary has been simplified, and colloquial or out -of-date expressions have been omitted."--Page vi.

"Reviewing your reading": pages 295-326.