About the Book

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR
Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature
First teaching: September 2015
Next exam: June 2024

This edition of Great Expectations is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms.

‘Hold your noise!’ cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. ‘Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!’

So begins Charles Dickens’s 1861 bildungsroman, the story of the orphan Pip who is catapulted from the desolate Kent marshes of his childhood to become a young gentleman in London.

Who is Pip’s mysterious benefactor? And what role will the troubling figures of escaped convict Magwitch, decaying bride Miss Havisham and the beautiful but aloof Estella play in his prospects?

Told through the first-person voice of the older Pip, this story of great expectations suggests gains always come at a price. Dickens depicts both the horrors of the early nineteenth-century penal system and the rapid rise and fall of fortunes that Victorian society permitted.

Critical Praise

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780008325909
• ISBN 10: 0008325901
• Imprint: Collins
• On Sale: 01/14/2019
• Pages: 640
• List Price:5.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : JUVENILE FICTION / Classics
• BISAC2 : STUDY AIDS / Book Notes (see also JUVENILE NONFICTION / Study Aids / Book Notes or YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Study Aids / Book Notes)
• BISAC3 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics
• BISAC4 : EDUCATION / Secondary
• BISAC5 : EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement

Charles Dickens

Biography

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England's greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved critical and popular international success in his lifetime and was honored with burial in Westminster Abbey.

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