Charles Dickens's Great Expectations - w a major new film from director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter) - charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip's life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with tes by Charlotte Mitchell, and an introduction by David Trotter. Adapted from Dickens's vel by bestselling author David Nicholls (One Day), Great Expectations stars Ralph Fiennes (The Reader), Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and also features Robbie Coltrane, David Walliams and Sally Hawkins. A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decrepit Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella at Satis House; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble station as an apprentice to blacksmith Joe Gargery, beginning a new life as a gentleman. Charles Dickens's haunting late vel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his identity, and his 'great expectations'. This definitive version uses the text from the first published edition of 1861. It includes a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century, and appendices on Dickens's original ending and his working tes, giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great velist at work. Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved velists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions. 'Great Expectations is up there for me with the world's greatest vels' Howard Jacobson
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Perfection Learning
ISBN-10
1627655646
ISBN-13
9781627655644
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216830015
Product Key Features
Author
Charles Dickens
Format
Hardback, Library Binding
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Edited by
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Department of English Charlotte Mitchell
Introduction by
Quain Professor of English Language and Literature David Trotter
Series Title
Penguin Classics
Author Biography
Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. David Trotter is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature and Head of Department at University College London. Charlotte Mitchell is Lecturer in English at University College London.