Great Expectations
Highlights

English
Language
NA
Edition
432
Pages
9781853260049
ISBN-13
1853260049
ISBN-10Wordsworth Classics
Publisher
176 mm
Height
110 mm
Width
22 mm
Thickness
Paperback
BindingDescription
Considered by many to be Dickens finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the books narrator, Philip Pirrip Pip, from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, th Considered by many to be Dickens finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the books narrator, Philip Pirrip Pip, from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pips good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own great expectations in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself. With an Introduction and Notes by John Bowen, Keele University. Illustrations by Marcus Stone