Great Expectations

Authors: Dickens, Charles
Publisher: HarperPerennial Classics
BISAC/Subject: FIC000000
ISBN: 9781443413947, Related ISBNs: 1443413941, 9781443413947
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 410,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens chronicles the life of Pip, an ordinary country boy led astray by the trappings of London society as well as his desire to improve himself and become a gentleman. Along the way, Pip meets the disappointed Miss Havisham and her beautiful but unattainable ward, Estella, with whom he falls deeply in love. Beloved by generations of readers, Great Expectations was originally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861.

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