Book description
Considered by many to be Dicken's finest novel, "Great
Expectations" traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip
Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of
character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish
marshes, the story abounds with some of Dicken's most memorable
characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the
mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her
beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and
the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great
expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the
past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling
adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important
discovery of all - the truth about himself. Considered by many to be
Dicken's finest novel, "Great Expectations" traces the growth
of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow
dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic
opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of
Dicken's most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith
Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss
Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate
Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth
behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman,
the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series
of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most
important discovery of all - the truth about himself.
