# Great Expectations

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- Book: [Great Expectations](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/great-expectations) ([Great Expectations.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/great-expectations.md))
- Authors: [Charles Dickens](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens), [Eddie Izzard](https://www.bookquiver.com/eddie-izzard)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-889-7
- Pages: 592
- Published: 2012-04-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens " What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" " I can't guess what it is, ma'am." " It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" Great Expectations , Dickens's funny, frightening and tender portrayal of the orphan Pip's journey of self-discovery, is one of his best-loved works. Showing how a young man's life is transformed by a mysterious series of events - an encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl; a fortune from a secret donor - Dickens's late novel is a masterpiece of psychological and moral truth, and Pip among his greatest creations. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.