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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens
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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.”
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Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9780553897623
  • Release date: June 3, 2003

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780553897623
  • Release date: June 3, 2003

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  • ISBN: 9780553897623
  • File size: 2311 KB
  • Release date: June 3, 2003
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:9.2
Lexile® Measure:1200
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:8-11

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.”
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
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