Hardcover, 641 pages
English language
Published Aug. 11, 1995 by St. Martin's Press.
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five C (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
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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'.
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