An edition of Great Expectations (1861)

Great Expectations

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An edition of Great Expectations (1861)

Great Expectations

1st edition
  • 3.7 (136 ratings) ·
  • 648 Want to read
  • 39 Currently reading
  • 175 Have read

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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Pearson ESL
Language
English
Pages
114

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Great Expectations
2019, Standard Ebooks
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Great Expectations
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Great Expectations
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Great Expectations
2008-12-12, LibriVox
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2006, Project Gutenberg
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Great Expectations
February 16, 2000, Pearson ESL
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Great Expectations
1998-07-01, Project Gutenberg
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Great Expectations
1992, Baronet Books
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Great Expectations
1987-01-01, Chancellor Press
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Great Expectations
/1970, [publisher not identified]
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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
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Great Expectations: And Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller
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Great Expectations
xxxx, A.L. Burt Company, Publishers
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Penguin Readers, Level 6

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
114
Dimensions
7.6 x 5 x 0.4 inches
Weight
4.2 ounces

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OL7881122M
ISBN 10
0582419476
ISBN 13
9780582419476
Library Thing
7554
Goodreads
97729

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