Great Expectations
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Great Expectations opens unforgettably in a twilit and overgrown churchyard on the eerie Kent marshes.
There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives. How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor, snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and 'great expectations', and grows through misfortune and suffering to maturity is the theme of one of Dicken's best-loved novels.
In Great Expectations Dickens blends gripping drama with penetrating satire to give a compelling story rich in comedy and pathos: he has also created two of his finest, most haunting characters in Pip and Miss Havisham.
Has different cover from above
Great Expectations opens unforgettably in a twilit and overgrown churchyard on the eerie Kent marshes.
There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives. How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor, snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and 'great expectations', and grows through misfortune and suffering to maturity is the theme of one of Dicken's best-loved novels.
In Great Expectations Dickens blends gripping drama with penetrating satire to give a compelling story rich in comedy and pathos: he has also created two of his finest, most haunting characters in Pip and Miss Havisham.
Has different cover from above
Journal Entry 2 by JPix at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, September 29, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (9/30/2007 UTC) at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Sent to a friend in Lampeter, Wales
Sent to a friend in Lampeter, Wales
Rceived book direct from the wonderful Pixie. Read it as a welcome relief from anthropology textbooks. Sent it on a controlled release to Anti (not registered - yet!).