Great Expectations / Hard times / The Cricket on the Hearth
Series: Great Classics Library
Publisher: Chancellor Press; Chancellor
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 679
ISBN-13: 9781851524969
Copyright date: 1994
Description: GREAT EXPECTATIONS explores, through Pip's relationship with MISS Havisham, her ward Estella and the convict Magwitch, the nature of hypocrisy, fear, 'gentility' and ambition.

HARD TIMES depicts the political and social world of Coketown, a typical Victorian industrial town peopled by such vivid characters as Gradgrind, Sissy Jupe, Bounderby and Stephen Blackpool.

THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH is Dickens's third Christmas book, taking for its theme a husband's unjust suspicions abeåt the fidelity of his much younger wife.