Great Expectations
$21.56
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
7 December 2011
Summary
From the agony of Charles Dickens’ disenchantment with the Victorian middle class comes a profound novel of spellbinding mystery…
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 benefactor provides him with …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451531186 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0451531183 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 150th |
| Release Date: | 7 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 105mm x 172mm |
| Series: | Signet Classics (Hardcover) |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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“No story in the first person was ever better told.”
“No story in the first person was ever better told.”
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-70)
As a child, Charles Dickens experienced hunger and privation, the horror of debtors’ prisons, and the evils of child labor. A surprise legacy offered release from these hardships and afforded Dickens two years of formal schooling. He taught himself shorthand and worked as a parliamentary reporter before his writing career began with the publication of Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837). As a novelist and magazine editor, Dickens achieved serialized success with works such as Our Mutual Friend (1864-65). In his later years, ill health did not prevent him from continuing his popular dramatic readings from his fiction to an adoring public, which included Queen Victoria. At his death, The Mystery of Edwin Drood remained unfinished.
Stanley Weintraub
Stanley Weintraub is the author or editor of more than fifty books on biography, cultural history, and military history, including The London Yankees, Whistler, Victoria, and Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert. He retired from Pennsylvania State University as Evan Hugh Professor Emeritus and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.
Annabel Davis-Goff
Annabel Davis-Goff is the author of The Dower House, This Cold Country, and The Fox’s Walk. All three novels were selected by The New York Times as Notable Books. She is also the author of Walled Gardens, a family memoir, and is the editor of The Literary Companion to Gambling. She now teaches literature at Bennington College.
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