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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, ISBN 0679874666
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving
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Description: The tale of the orphan, Pip, and his mysterious benefactor provides a grotesque but pointed comedy that explores the many levels of English society with insight and sympathy as well as a satiric eye. Considered by many to be Dickens's best novel, GREAT EXPECTATIONS is the story of a young man who rises out of a rough, deprived childhood to a life in which his expectations--or some of them--are fulfilled: he is a gentleman and a success, though he soon finds that happiness doesn't necessarily...
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, ISBN 0141439564
A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, ISBN 0140366814
When a mysterious benefactor enables the orphan boy, Pip, to rise in Victorian society, Pip is educated as a gentleman and snobbishly neglects his childhood friends
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We found 6 used copies, 1 new copy, and 1 collectible copy of this book. (Show all copies of ISBN 9781578400119)
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Pip is an orphan, alone in the world. Then his path crosses with that of an escaped convict, and his life is never the same again. From the decaying mansion of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward, Estella, to a new world of unexpected wealth, Pip must struggle to find his way. Mysterious forces are at work, shaping his life in a conspiracy of love, fear, fate, and chance. Pip knows the kind of life he was meant to lead. What he doesn't know is whether life will lead him in an altogether...
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9780553213423 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Description: In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coach to London where, by the grace of a mysterious benefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle rich and "become a gentleman." Finally, in the luminous mists of the village at evening, Pip the man meets Estella, his dazzingly beautiful tormentor, in a ruined garden--and lays to rest all the...
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, ISBN 0679405798
Tells the story of Pip, an orphan who, through a mysterious benefactor, rises in Victorian society, is educated as a gentleman, and snobbishly neglects his childhood friends
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Enjoy one of Dickens' towering achievements in this grandly entertaining dramatization. From his first terrifying encounter with Magwitch, an escaped convict. Pip's life is engaged with misconceptions about guilt, money, and class. Wealthy spinster Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella's interventions only deepen his distress.
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, ISBN 0553213423
Pip, an orphan living with a cruel sister, discovers the world of London with the aid of an unknown benefactor
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My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister. . . . but this is my tale, not my father's. It is the tale of how I lived my life, and thrived -- how I lost my all, and found something again, praiise God, a thing I love. Listen and you'dll hear . . .
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Description: The tale of the orphan, Pip, and his mysterious benefactor provides a grotesque but pointed comedy that explores the many levels of English society with insight and sympathy as well as a satiric eye. Considered by many to be Dickens's best novel, GREAT EXPECTATIONS is the story of a young man who rises out of a rough, deprived childhood to a life in which his expectations--or some of them--are fulfilled: he is a gentleman and a success, though he soon finds that happiness doesn't necessarily...
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Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840. Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style, and is the story of the orphan Pip, tracing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood. The story can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much...
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Description: "Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class. Selected Reviews: "When I was young I understood Pip and sympathized with him and felt what he felt in his various horrors and discovery of his paternity....
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Description: When a mysterious benefactor enables the orphan boy, Pip, to rise in Victorian society, Pip is educated as a gentleman and snobbishly neglects his childhood friends. Selected Reviews: "When I was young I understood Pip and sympathized with him and felt what he felt in his various horrors and discovery of his paternity. As I got older I...was horrified by his shallowness. It's like watching 'The Graduate' when you were young - and then older and you understand why Mrs. Robinson doesn...
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9780679405795 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Description: Introduction by Michael Slater Selected Reviews: "When I was young I understood Pip and sympathized with him and felt what he felt in his various horrors and discovery of his paternity. As I got older I...was horrified by his shallowness. It's like watching 'The Graduate' when you were young - and then older and you understand why Mrs. Robinson doesn't want to talk with him in bed." --Richard Russo, Mother Jones
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Trade Paperback
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations between his terrifying experience in a graveyard with a convict named Magwitch and his humiliating visits with the eccentric Miss Havisham's beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, who torments him until he is elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can't buy. Great...
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Dickens's tale of the orphan, Pip, and his mysterious benefactor provides a grotesque but pointed comedy that explores the ......
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Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, ...
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We found 4 used copies, 1 new copy, and 1 collectible copy of this book. (Show all copies of ISBN 9780688091101)
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