From its famously dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, Great Expectations – widely held to be Dickens’ finest novel – traces the growth of its narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams into a man of real depth of character. The story is populated throughout with some of Dickens’ most memorable creations: the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip’s good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket, and the pompous Pumblechook. Through a series of thrilling adventures, as the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate steer Pip towards maturity, he gradually unravels the truth behind his own ‘great expectations’ and his quest to become a gentleman – arriving finally at his most important discovery of all, the truth about himself.
ISBN 13: 9781853260049
Author: Charles Dickens
