Charles Dickens Great Expectations

Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five C (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)

Hardcover, 641 pages

English language

Published Aug. 11, 1995 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
978-0-312-12797-8
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A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers thetrue nature of his 'great expectations'.

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Subjects

  • Classics
  • Dickens, Charles
  • Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • 1812-1870
  • Benefactors
  • Dickens, Charles,
  • Ex-convicts
  • Fiction
  • Great expectations
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Literary Criticism