by Charles Dickens · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620160
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«Great Expectations» is Charles Dickens's bildungsroman, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Pip, an orphan from the Kent marshes, sees his life transformed after an encounter with an escaped convict and the mysterious Miss Havisham. An anonymous inheritance opens the doors of London society to him, but his great expectations conceal a more complex truth about wealth, class and love.
Written between 1860 and 1861, it was originally published in serial form. This 1994 edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection and reproduces the text of the first edition of 1861.
A classic of nineteenth-century English literature, commonly read in schools and by readers of classic fiction.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
