Great Expectations
Publisher: Book-of-the-Month Club
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 566
Copyright date: 1997
Description: The Story told in Great Expectations ( 1861) is a variation on one of literature's great themes: that of a naive. untutored boy from the countryside who comes to the great city to make his fortune and to learn about life- The work 's extra- ordinary appeal is largely due to the brilliant twists Dickens gives to this familiar plot device. especial- ly in gradually revealing the role and identity of the mysterious benefactor who offers the orphaned Pip the opportunity to brought up "as a young fellow of great expectations." The novel •s interest is also heightened by Pip's ambivalent relationship with the haughty Estella. so ditterent from the author's usual pure and good heroines, and all the more fascinating for that reason. Finally. and most memorably. the haunting figures of the convict Magwitch and the mad recluse Miss Havisham are but two of the array of brilliantly drawn characters whose lives intersect with Pip-s in ways that have amazed and captivated remiers for almost a century and a half.