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Great Expectations (Great Illustrated Classics)
Great Expectations - Great Illustrated Classics
Author: Charles Dickens, Mitsu Yamamoto (Adapter), Brendan Lynch (Illustrator)
Considered by critics to be among Dickens' best-constructed stories, GREAT EXPECTATIONS deals with a major theme of the Victorian social novel: the hero's movement upward through the class structure. Pip, an orphan, helps an escaped prisoner hiding in a marsh. Miss Havisham, an eccentric recluse, is deserted on her wedding day. From thes...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780866119726
ISBN-10: 0866119728
Publication Date: 6/1992
Pages: 240
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Playmore Inc. Publishers
Book Type: School Library Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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Young Pip, an orphan boy, apprenticed to the village blacksmith, yearns to be a gentleman. Suddenly a mysterious person wills him a fortune andhe leaves his village to be educated as a rich gentleman. Pip longs to marry Estella, a beautiful ward of the eccentric Miss Havisham. But Pip's new life is shattered by the re-appearance of Magwitch, a convict who once forced him to steal. Will Magwitch's demands spell the end of Pip's "great expectations"....?


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