Great Expectations

Name: Great Expectations
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780241734339
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By Charles Dickens

Series: Puffin Classics

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Puffin Classics – the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation – including this charming edition of Great Expectations.

As a small boy at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip meets two people who will affect his whole life – an escaped convict he is forced to help, and the eccentric Miss Haversham, whose beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella young Pip adores. But when a secret benefactor pays for him to go to London to become a gentleman, Pip never dreams he will meet the dreadful Magwitch again, nor just how wrong his expectations are...

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241734339

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Puffin Classics

Contributors:

Abridged by Linda Jennings
Introduction by Roddy Doyle

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 367g

Pages: 528

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Charles Dickens Children’s, Teenage and Educational Classic Fiction Fiction Penguin Books Series: Puffin Classics Young Adult

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Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of the most recognized celebrities of English literature. His imagination, wit, mastery of the language and huge creative output single him out as one of the few people who genuinely deserve to be called genius. He had a poverty-stricken childhood and was determined to improve himself. By his early twenties he found a job as a parliamentary reporter and in his spare time wrote sketches of London life for newspapers and magazines. The publication of Pickwick Papers (1836) brought him the fame and fortune he craved. He wrote many other famous books including Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities.

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