Great Expectations - Gcse 9-1 Set Text Student Edition

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR
Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature
Next exam: June 2026
This edition of Great Expectations is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms.
'Hold your noise!' cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. 'Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!'
So begins Charles Dickens's 1861 bildungsroman, the story of the orphan Pip who is catapulted from the desolate Kent marshes of his childhood to become a young gentleman in London.
Who is Pip's mysterious benefactor? And what role will the troubling figures of escaped convict Magwitch, decaying bride Miss Havisham and the beautiful but aloof Estella play in his prospects?
Told through the first-person voice of the older Pip, this story of great expectations suggests gains always come at a price. Dickens depicts both the horrors of the early nineteenth-century penal system and the rapid rise and fall of fortunes that Victorian society permitted.

About the author

Charles Dickens and Collins GCSE, Introduction and notes by Maria Cairney

Summary

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature Next exam: June 2026

Product details

• Authors: Collins GCSE, Charles Dickens
• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 16
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780008325909
• ISBN: 978-0-00-832590-9
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 180 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Collins Classroom Classics; Collins Classroom Classics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature; Englisch; Lektüre, JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, English, EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Interest age: from c 14 years, STUDY AIDS / Book Notes, For secondary education, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), For National Curriculum Key Stage 4 & Gcse, Teachers' classroom resources & material, Teachers’ classroom resources and material, Literature, books & writers (Children's/Teenage), School editions of English literature fiction texts, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary