Great Expectations

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: Reprint

Description: 555 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. An Orphan Living With His Older Sister And Her Kindly Husband. Pip Is Hired By Wealthy And Embittered Miss Haversham As A Companion For Her And Her Beautiful Adopted Daughter, Estella.

Publishers Description: If she tears your heart to pieces... Love her, love her, love her!'A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decrepit Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella at Satis House; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble station as an apprentice to blacksmith Joe Gargery, beginning a new life as a gentleman.Charles Dickens's haunting novel depicts Pip's coming of age, as he discovers the true nature of his identity, and his 'great expectations'.

ISBN: 9780141392592