Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Charles Dickens
• Title: Great Expectations
• Publisher: ‎ Penguin Books (December 4, 2010)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback ‏ w/ Deckle Edge – 460 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0143106279
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0143106272
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.25 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher
• Book Condition: New / Like New – Excellent
• Cover Condition: Excellent

Synopsis:

A newly repackaged edition of Dickens's classic coming-of-age tale, with an introduction by Francine Prose.

A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor-these form a series of events that change the orphan Pip's life forever, as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.

Dickens's haunting novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his great expectations.

Published nine years before Dickens's death, it remains one of his most celebrated works.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.

Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About the Author:

Charles Dickens, in full Charles John Huffam Dickens, (born February 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England—died June 9, 1870, Gad’s Hill, near Chatham, Kent), English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes include such works as A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend.

Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity during his lifetime than had any previous author. Much in his work could appeal to the simple and the sophisticated, to the poor and to the queen, and technological developments as well as the qualities of his work enabled his fame to spread worldwide very quickly.

His long career saw fluctuations in the reception and sales of individual novels, but none of them was negligible or uncharacteristic or disregarded, and, though he is now admired for aspects and phases of his work that were given less weight by his contemporaries, his popularity has never ceased.

The most abundantly comic of English authors, he was much more than a great entertainer. The range, compassion, and intelligence of his apprehension of his society and its shortcomings enriched his novels and made him both one of the great forces in 19th-century literature and an influential spokesman of the conscience of his age.