by Charles Dickens · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141439563
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«Great Expectations» is the classic novel by Charles Dickens, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (544 pages, in English).
The novel follows Pip, an orphan whose life changes when he encounters an escaped convict in the Kent marshes and meets the eccentric Miss Havisham and her cold ward Estella. A mysterious inheritance pushes him to leave his blacksmith trade and pursue his rise as a gentleman, until he discovers the true meaning of his great expectations.
Novel originally published in 1861. This revised Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by David Trotter, notes by Charlotte Mitchell, and appendices on Dickens's original ending.
Classic of Victorian literature, recommended for readers of coming-of-age novels and for those approaching Dickens for the first time.
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.
