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Great expectations

Everyman's library

by Dickens Charles

Synopsis

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels,Great Expectationsfollows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames,Great Expectationsis filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide. Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist’s bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions. This edition includes Dickens’s original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.

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Book Information

Copyright year 1992
ISBN-13 9780679405795
ISBN-10 0679405798
Class Copyright
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Subject FICTION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 544
Shelf No. MM622
Grade Range 8-12
Ages 14-99