Great Expectations
By: With a new introd. by Frank Chapman.
Publisher: Collier Books
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.; Ex-convicts -- Fiction.; Benefactors -- Fiction.; Young men -- Fiction.; Revenge -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Great Expectations, Dickens' tenth novel, was published in 1861. nine years before his death. In it he launched his fiercest attack on snobbery, hypocrisy, and a society based upon greed and social rank. And here he created some of his most un- forgettable characters. We meet: PIP, the orphan boy who inherits a large sum of money and becomes a "gentleman "; MAGWITCH. the escaped convict befriended by Pip; MISS HAVISHAM, the vengeful recluse; her beautiful ward, ESTELLA; obsequious t,'SCLE PUMBL.ECHOOK; over- bearing. offensive J AGGERS; and JOE GARGERY, the tender, loyal blacksmith.

Pip's painful journey to maturity traces the theme Of the novel. As Frank Chapman puts it in his introduction. "...from the first evocation of the grim. desolate Thames-side marshes to the final disaster on the river. by those same marshes. the reader , will feel himself carried forward. with unflagging interest, by a theme which has much of the intensity and inevitablity that we expect from a great work of art."