Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Evans Brothers
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Benefactors
ISBN : 0237536226
The cold, misty Kent marshes -- Pip, an orphan, is terrified when an escaped convict appears out of the gloom and threatens him. Then the strange and sinister Miss Haversham sends for him. What will Pip do when he discovers he has come into riches -- and will he ever find out who his benefactor is? -- Cover.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2002-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781577655336
The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 1881
Category :
ISBN :
One of the finest novels by iconic British author Charles Dickens, this Victorian tale follows the good-natured orphan Pip as he makes his way through life. As a boy, Pip crosses paths with a convict named Magwitch, a man who will heavily influence Pip’s adulthood. Meanwhile, the earnest young man falls for the beautiful Estella, the adoptive daughter of the affluent and eccentric Miss Havisham. Widely considered to be Dickens's last great book, the story is steeped in romance and features the writer's familiar themes of crime, punishment, and societal struggle.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Top Five Books LLC
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2011-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0978927087
This Top Five Classics edition of Great Expectations Includes: • More than 30 b&w and color illustrations by Marcus Stone, F.A. Fraser, John McLenan, F.O.C. Darley, and others • Dickens’s original ending, included as an addendum at the end of the book • A helpful introduction, author bio, and bibliography Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’s beloved, autobiographical tale of a poor boy haunted by a dark secret and harboring grand hopes for his future as a gentleman. Pip, the story’s narrator, takes us through his early life—from his brush with an escaped convict on the marshes of southeast England to his exposure to genteel society through the warped old Miss Havisham and her icy protégé, the alluring young Estella. Apprenticed to the blacksmith, the tender-hearted Joe, Pip’s fortunes change dramatically thanks to a mysterious benefactor, and he must figure out what is real and what is false as he navigates his new world, while never quite escaping his old. Considered by many to be Dickens’s greatest work, Great Expectations will transport you, move you, and stay with you forever. Beautifully yet simply formatted, carefully edited, and featuring more than 30 illustrations from the artists who realized the first serialized chapters and many of the early book editions of Great Expectations, this is the definitive digital version of the Dickens classic.
Author : Lloyd Jones
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459616359
Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Matilda attends the school set up by Mr Watts, the only white man on the island. By his own admission he's not much of a teacher and proceeds to educate the children by reading them Great Expectations. Matilda falls in love with the novel, strongly identifying with Pip. The promise of the next chapter is what keeps her going; Pip's story protects her from the horror of what is happening around her - helicopters menacing the skies above the village and rebel raids on the ground. When the rebels visit the village searching for any remaining men to join their cause, they discover the name Pip written in the sand and instigate a search for him. When Pip can't be found the soldiers destroy the book. Mr Watts then encourages the children to retell the story from their memories. Then when the rebels invade the village, the teacher tells them a story which lasts seven nights, about a boy named Pip, and a convict . . .
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8027232961
Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307758370
One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide. Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist’s bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions. This edition includes Dickens’s original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category :
ISBN :
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
Author : Charles Finance
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Caterers and catering
ISBN :
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2020-11-14
Category :
ISBN :
The Definitive Edition of GREAT EXPECTATIONS-Illustrated with all the original illustrations approved by Dickens himself-Complete, unabridged, and formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience-Linked table of contents to reach your chapter quickly"One of the 1000 novels everyone must read" The Guardian"Great Expectations is a masterpiece." The Atlantic"Great Expectations is an unforgettable tale of fate and a chance encounter between two strangers that radically and arbitrarily alters the lives of everyone around them." Oprah.com"Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a wonderful story with many characters rich in diversity and complexity. From our lowly poor Pip who comes into money, to the quintessential tease, Estella, to the jilted bride Miss Havisham, and many others. Romance, love, betrayal, murder, and suspense are just a few of the aspects of this story." MidnightfaerieGREAT EXPECTATIONS is one of the most profound and exciting novels of all time. It has been made into many film and television adaptations and tells the story of Pip, an orphan who mysteriously comes into wealth. This is Dickens' masterpiece presented as it was meant to be read, with all the original illustrations approved by Dickens himself.
