Great Expectations
‘In the little world in which children have their existence, whosever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice’ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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Great Expectations Paperback ISBN: 9780099511571 Published: 03/03/2008 Imprint: Vintage Classics Extent: 512 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP
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Great Expectations EBook ISBN: 9781407015262 Published: 01/09/2010 Imprint: Vintage Digital Extent: 512 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP Buy Now
Synopsis
Pip’s life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals. His desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella, but secrets from the past impede his progress and he has many hard lessons to learn.
Editorial Reviews
"He's a marvellous writer... He's very, very good" - William Trevor
"A story of the traumas of sex and class. My favourite moment is the one where Magwitch makes his stumbling way up the shadowy staircase towards an unnerved but unsuspecting Pip: the halting but inexorable rise of the repressed 'from the darkness beneath'" - Sarah Waters
"This was the author's last great work, the defects in it are as nearly imperceptible as spots on the sun or shadows on a sunlit sea" - Algernon Charles Swinburne
"I would always prefer to go get another Dickens off the shelf than pick up a new book by someone I've not read yet... I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive" - Donna Tartt
"There is no one Dickens novel I could pick over all the others. Dickens is huge-like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it's immediately recognizable as him, yet he might be doing social satire, or farce, or horror, or a psychological study of a murderer-or any combination of these" - Susannah Clarke
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