Books with title Classic Starts®: Great Expectations

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a classic coming of age novel featuring the journey of orphan named Pip in the English marshes and later London. Great Expectations was originally published in weekly installments and then was later edited into a single novel. Great Expectations is required reading in many high school and college English courses. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This ebook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes Get your next Xist Classic title for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1A7cKKl Find all our our books for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1PooxLl Sign up for the Xist Publishing Newsletter here. Find more great titles on our website.

As a young orphan, Pip encounters an escaped criminal while living with his cruel sister. He is then sent to spend time with the eccentric Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward, Estella, who enchants Pip. As a young man, Pip is given money by a mysterious benefactor, who turns out to be both the convict and Estella's father. With the hopes of winning Estella's love and becoming a gentleman in London, Pip is tasked with many "great expectations."

A classic work of Victorian literature, Great Expectations is a coming of age story by Charles Dickens. The narrator, Pip, is an orphan sent to London to become a gentlemen, courtesy of a mysterious benefactor. Rather than having all he previously desired, however, he remains fixated on his childhood playmate, Estella, the adopted daughter an eccentric wealthy woman named Miss Havisham. This timeless story of star-crossed love and moral ambiguity has captivated readers for over a hundred years, and continues to endure as a timeless tale by a master of English literature.

This edition includes 10 illustrations. One of Charles Dickens’ masterworks and perhaps his most famous novel, Great Expectations is a tale of love, vengeance, the biases of the 19th century class system and eventual redemption. Following a poor young man named Pip, who becomes the recipient of a mysterious but generous monetary donation, thus facilitating his rise to the rank of gentleman, readers also encounter the infamously frosty Miss Havisham and her beautiful, remote adopted daughter Estella, with whom Pip falls in love and for whom he seeks his social climb. The characters are unforgettable and Dickens’ ripe charm and wit is at its best.

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” –from Great ExpectationsGreat Expectations, a Bildungsroman, believed to represent Charles Dickens' peak and maturity as an author, written in 1861, is a classic work of the Victorian novel and depicts a vast range of subjects and incidents of the time, Dickens' concerns, and the relationship between society and man by describing the personal development and growth of an orphan named Pip.In Great Expectations, typical Dickensian themes like wealth, poverty, love, good and evil emerge which may have contributed to its popularity and regardless of its narrative technique, the novel is written in a completely balanced style that proves Charles Dickens’ being a master craftsman, let alone his illustrative gift for realistic and dramatic speech.It shall suffice to remember the appraisal that good George Bernard Shaw made about this classic novel: "All of one piece and consistently truthful."

Raised in squalor in the marsh country of Kent, the orphan Pip is taken under the wing of the eccentric and reclusive Miss Havisham—only to blindly give his heart to the dowager’s beautiful but ice-cold adopted daughter, Estella. Even as a mysterious benefactor helps to shape Pip’s life into one of fortune, success, and self-discovery, the unspeakable secrets of his unrequited love continue to haunt him—and promise to change his life once again.With its indelible cast of characters, immersive epic narrative, and startling dramatic twists, Charles Dickens’s powerful classic continues to enthrall generations of new readers.Revised edition: Previously published as Great Expectations, this edition of Great Expectations (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide. Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist’s bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions.This edition includes Dickens’s original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.