Great Expectations

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Penguin UK, May 5, 2011 - Young Adult Fiction - 528 pages

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As a small boy at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip meets two people who will affect his whole life - an escaped convict he is forced to help, and the eccentric Miss Haversham, whose beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella young Pip adores. But when a secret benefactor pays for him to go to London to become a gentleman, Pip never dreams he will meet the dreadful Magwitch again, nor just how wrong his expectations are.

 

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Contents

Introduction by Roddy Doyle
Chapter 1
Chapter 39
Chapter 48
AUTHOR FILE
WHOS WHO IN GREAT EXPECTATIONS
SOME
SOME THINGSTO THINK ABOUT THINGSTO DO CHARLES DICKENSS LONDON
GLOSSARY
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of the most recognized celebrities of English literature. His imagination, wit, mastery of the language and huge creative output single him out as one of the few people who genuinely deserve to be called genius. He had a poverty-stricken childhood and was determined to improve himself. By his early twenties he found a job as a parliamentary reporter and in his spare time wrote sketches of London life for newspapers and magazines. The publication of Pickwick Papers (1836) brought him the fame and fortune he craved. He wrote many other famous books including Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities.

Bibliographic information

TitleGreat Expectations
Puffin Classics
AuthorCharles Dickens
PublisherPenguin UK, 2011
ISBN0141948965, 9780141948966
Length528 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Juvenile Fiction / Classics
Juvenile Fiction / Family / General
Young Adult Fiction / Classics
Young Adult Fiction / Literary
  
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