Great Expectations / Charles Dickens ; retold by Gwendoline Dun ; illustrated by Eileen Green
By: Dickens, Charles [autor]
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Contributor(s): Dun, Gwendoline | Green, Eileen [ilustrador].
Series: Oxford English Picture Readers. Colour Edition: London : Oxford University Press, 1990Description: 128 pages : Illustrations ; 19 cm.Content type: texto Media type: no mediado Carrier type: volumenISBN: 0019581198.Subject(s): English novel | Christmas novel | English science fiction novelDDC classification: 823.8 / Summary: Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella.
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.
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Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella.
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.
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