Great Expectations

Informationen zum Autor Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had been taken to the debtors' prison. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers , his first commercial success, was published in 1836. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. Klappentext The story of Pip, an orphan in Victorian England who is informed one day that he has "great expectations" and is to be educated and reared as a gentleman. Zusammenfassung Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. Pip's desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella, but secrets from the past impede his progress and he has many hard lessons to learn.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Dickens
• Assisted by: F. W. Pailthorpe (Illustration)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.01.2008
• EAN: 9780099511571
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951157-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Classic fiction: general and literary