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A classic study of the development of a man from child to adult, Great Expectations
tells the story of Pip's life with Dickens' customary wryness, wit, and ready sympathy.
The cast of characters is entrancing: Joe; simple and loyal, Mrs Joe; vindictive and
powerful, Pumblechook; pompous and insufferable, Magwitch; desperate and
inspired, Miss Havisham; sinister and pitiful, Estella; beautiful and cruel. In the heady
process of gaining his great expectations, Pip must come to terms not just with the
world around him, but with himself; his hopes and dreams, his past and future, in
order to discover what is truly important to him.
Great Expectations is introduced by H.M. Daleski, formerly President of the International Dickens Society and Chairman of the Department of English at the Hebrew University. He is the author of Dickens and the Art of Analogy, The Divided Heroine, Unities: Studies in the English Novel, and other books.
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