Great Expectations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780553213423)

Introduction by John Irving - 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."

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 0553213423
ISBN-13: 9780553213423
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1982
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 6.84h x 4.26w x 0.95d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.2
Point Value: 35
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 707 / Great Expectations (Unabridged)