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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460284303321

Autore

Dickens Charles <1812-1870, >

Titolo

Great expectations / / Charles Dickens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Open Road Integrated Media, , 2015

ISBN

1-4976-8427-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (818 p.)

Disciplina

823.8

Soggetti

Orphans

Electronic books.

England Social conditions 19th century Juvenile fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Chapter IX; Chapter X; Chapter XI; Chapter XII; Chapter XIII; Chapter XIV; Chapter XV; Chapter XVI; Chapter XVII; Chapter XVIII; Chapter XIX; Chapter XX; Chapter XXI; Chapter XXII; Chapter XXIII; Chapter XXIV; Chapter XXV; Chapter XXVI; Chapter XXVII; Chapter XXVIII; Chapter XXIX; Chapter XXX; Chapter XXXI; Chapter XXXII; Chapter XXXIII; Chapter XXXIV; Chapter XXXV; Chapter XXXVI; Chapter XXXVII; Chapter XXXVIII; Chapter XXXIX; Chapter XL; Chapter XLI; Chapter XLII

Chapter XLIIIChapter XLIV; Chapter XLV; Chapter XLVI; Chapter XLVII; Chapter XLVIII; Chapter XLIX; Chapter L; Chapter LI; Chapter LII; Chapter LIII; Chapter LIV; Chapter LV; Chapter LVI; Chapter LVII; Chapter LVIII; Chapter LIX; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

One of the most celebrated and influential novels of the past two centuries tells the vivid and unforgettable coming-of-age story of the orphan Pip In the marsh country of Victorian England, young Pip lives with his sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe, eking out a hardscrabble life. Pip's one true aspiration is to apprentice for Joe and become a blacksmith himself, a dream that sustains him and gives him hope. But though he doesn't know it, Pip's fates are about to turn. Alone in a graveyard one night, he encounters a grizzled and mud-smeared escaped convict. Dragging a heavy sha