Great Expectations

Great Expectations - Paperback

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations - Paperback

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by Charles Dickens (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)

One of Charles Dickens most acclaimed works Great Expectations displays the author at the peak of his skills, working a collection of vivid characters through a sprawling plot studded with richly drawn scenes.

First appearing in 1861, Great Expectations offers a bounty of the pleasures only this author can provide. This is the sweeping story of Pip, an orphan growing up in an England Dickens brings to tumultuous life on the page. Pip must wrestle with injustice, poverty, duplicity and the trials of love while surrounded by a meticulously woven web of indelible characters. There are Miss Havisham, the spinster once left at the altar and still clad in her wedding dress, her adopted daughter Estella, beloved by Pip but curiously indifferent to all affection, and Abel Magwitch, the fearsome convict whose hidden nature affects Pip in a surprising fashion. These, and many other equally vital and amusing individuals are thrust together and pulled apart as they, and the reader, are borne along on a torrent of pure storytelling power. Great Expectations is arguably its author's finest achievement and one of the greatest novels of the Victorian era.

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Back Jacket

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens follows its narrator from childhood into manhood as he encounters friends, enemies, love, and hardship among a host of the most memorable characters in English literature. This classic coming-of-age story overflows with its author's expansive imaginative vision.

Number of Pages: 452
Dimensions: 1.01 x 8 x 5 IN
Publication Date: November 03, 2020
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Great Expectations (Unabridged)
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 9.2
Point Value: 35
ISBN9781513264639
Author Charles Dickens
PublisherMint Editions
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages452
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

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