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Great Expectations
Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author), Shaw, Bernard (Introduction by)

ISBN: 0375757015 ISBN-13: 9780375757013
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2001
Annotation: Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations between his terrifying experience in a graveyard with a convict named Magwitch and his humiliating visits with the eccentric Miss Havisham's beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, who torments him until he is elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can't buy. Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language, according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens's abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.

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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 00064744

Lexile Measure: 1200(Not Available)

Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)

Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.3" W x 8" L (0.79 lbs) 480 pages

Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age

Features: Ikids, Price on Product

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 707
Reading Level: 9.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 35.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
Introduction by George Bernard Shaw - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations--until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters--including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can't buy. "Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language," according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, "Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens's abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero."

INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE

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