Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens

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  • : 14.00 AUD
  • : 9781853260049
  • : Wordsworth Editions Ltd
  • : Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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  • : 0.249
  • : December 2006
  • : 198mm X 126mm X 23mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Charles Dickens
  • : Wordsworth Classics
  • : Paperback
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  • : F W Pailthorpe
  • : English
  • : 823.8
  • : very good
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  • : 432
  • : General & literary fiction; Classic fiction
  • : illustrations, notes, bibliography
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Barcode 9781853260049
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Description

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's 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, Pip's 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.

Awards

Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 and The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.