Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141023538 ISBN 13: 9780141023533

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2006

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Reseña del editor

Pip doesn't expect much from life...
His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beauty Estella. Most astoundingly of all, an anonymous person gives him money to begin a new life in London.
Are these events as random as they seem? Or does Pip's fate hang on a series of coincidences he could never have expected?

Biografía del autor

Charles Dickens was born at Portsmouth on 7 February 1812. Part of the secret of his success was the method of cheap serial publication which Dickens used for all his novels. He began Oliver Twist in 1837, followed by Nicholas Nickleby (1838) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41). A Christmas Carol, appeared in 1843, David Copperfield in 1850. In later works, such as Bleak House (1853) and Little Dorrit (1857), Dickens's social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage. He published Hard Times in 1854, A Tale of Two Cities in 1859 and Great Expectations in 1860. His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was never completed and he died on 9 June 1870.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141023538
• ISBN 13: 9780141023533
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 560