An edition of Great Expectations (1861)

Great Expectations

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An edition of Great Expectations (1861)

Great Expectations

First Signet Classics Printing (1)
  • 3.68 ·
  • 109 Ratings
  • 503 Want to read
  • 33 Currently reading
  • 140 Have read

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and a profound examination of moral values. An orphan living with his older sister and her kindly husband, Pip is hired by wealthy and embittered Miss Havisham as a companion for her and her beautiful adopted daughter, Estella. His years in service to the Havishams fill his heart with the desire to rise above his station in life. Pip's wish is fulfilled when a mysterious bene- factor provides him with "great expectations"—the means to be tutored as a gentleman.

Thrust into London's high-society circles, Pip grows accus- tomed to a life of leisure, only to find himself lacking as a suitor competing for Estella's favor. After callously discarding everything he once valued for his own selfish pursuits, Pip learns the identity of his patron—a revelation that shatters his very soul.

From the agony of Dickens's disenchantment with the Vic- torian middle class comes a work that gives an added dimension to his matchless genius.

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Signet Classics
Language
English
Pages
508

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New York

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2009

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR4560.A1 2009, PR4560 .A1 2009

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
xii, 508p.
Number of pages
508

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24284774M
Internet Archive
greatexpectation00
ISBN 10
0451531183
ISBN 13
9780451531186
LCCN
2009502663
OCLC/WorldCat
233548244
Goodreads
65137676

Work Description

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.

The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations, which is popular both with readers and literary critics, has been translated into many languages and adapted numerous times into various media.

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