by Charles Dickens · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140434897
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«Great Expectations» is Charles Dickens's bildungsroman, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (544 pages, in English).
The orphan Pip's life changes after an encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes and a mysterious summons to Miss Havisham's mansion. There Pip meets the cold and beautiful Estella. An unexpected fortune takes Pip to London to become a gentleman, but discovering who his secret benefactor is will be part of his moral redemption.
This Penguin Classics edition, published on October 31, 1996, includes an introduction by David Trotter and notes by Charlotte Mitchell. The novel was originally published in 1861.
It is aimed at readers new to Victorian classics and at secondary school students approaching Dickens.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
