Great Expectations
Charles Dickens, Jo Clifford
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A beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels, bringing it thrillingly to life for the stage. When the orphan Pip meets the convict Magwitch in a graveyard and is forced to help him escape, his life takes a series of unexpected turns. Invited to the house of the mysterious Miss Havisham, he falls in love with her adopted daughter, the beautiful but cold-hearted Estella. Then the generosity of an unknown benefactor sends him to London to become a gentleman. But the truth behind his change of fortune, once revealed, is not what Pip expects ... Eminently actable and stageable, this version is also ideal for schools and amateur theatre companies.

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Great Expectations
2019, Standard Ebooks
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Great Expectations
2016-01-14, LibriVox
Digital Audio in English
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Timeless Classics Low Level: Great Expectations
Jan 01, 2014, Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.
paperback
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Groote Verwachtingen
2013-09-23, LibriVox
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Great Expectations
2012-11-15, LibriVox
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Great Expectations
2012, Hern Books, Limited, Nick
in English
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Great Expectations
2008-12-12, LibriVox
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Les grandes espérances
2006, Project Gutenberg
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Great Expectations
1998-07-01, Project Gutenberg
in English
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Great Expectations
1992, Baronet Books
School & Library Binding in English
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Great Expectations
1987-01-01, Chancellor Press
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Great Expectations
/1970, [publisher not identified]
in English
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Great Expectations
1963-01-01, Signet, Washington Square Press
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Great Expectations: And Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller
1868, Books
Hardcover in English - Cleartype ed.
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Great Expectations: And Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller
1868, Books Inc.
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Great Expectations: And Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller
1868, Books
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The Works of Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
1868, Books Inc.
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Great Expectations
xxxx, A.L. Burt Company, Publishers
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Library of Congress
PR6100, PR6053.L4926 G74 2012, PR6053.L4926 G74 2012x

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Open Library
OL28454924M
ISBN 13
9781848420670
OCLC/WorldCat
844946229

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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