From a dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, Great Expectations unfolds as the story of Philip Pirrip – known to all as Pip – and his journey from a boy of shallow dreams to a man of real depth of character. Many consider it Dickens’ finest novel, populated with some of his most memorable creations: the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip’s good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket, and the pompous Pumblechook. Pip’s quest to become a gentleman and unravel the truth behind his own ‘great expectations’ carries him through a series of thrilling adventures shaped by the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate, steering him at last towards maturity – and towards his most important discovery of all: the truth about himself.
ISBN 13: 9781840228014
Author: Charles Dickens
