An edition of Great Expectations (1861)

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An edition of Great Expectations (1861)

Great Expectations

First Washington Square Press printing (1)
  • 3.68 ·
  • 109 Ratings
  • 503 Want to read
  • 33 Currently reading
  • 140 Have read

"Great Expectations" is generally considered the finest achievement of Charles Dickens' illustrious literary career. Abundant with wondrous coincidences, singular characters, and abrupt plot twists, it narrates the epic story of the orphan Pip, whose sudden rise from poverty, fueled by a mysterious source, gives birth to newfound opportunities and expectations. Its stark social realism is a profound meditation on the nature of goodness, and the illusions and desires that divert us from lasting happiness. Since it was serialized weekly in 1861, "Great Expectations" has become a timeless classic.

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1969, Bancroft Books
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1968, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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New York

Edition Notes

Grades 9-12.

Series
Enriched classics series
Copyright Date
2000

Classifications

Library of Congress
CPB Box no. 1945 vol. 7

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxviii, 530 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
530

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3668572M
Internet Archive
greatexpectation00dick_8
ISBN 10
0743406362
ISBN 13
9780743406369
LCCN
2002597842
OCLC/WorldCat
44886376, 44886376
Library Thing
7554
Goodreads
65568908

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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