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Charles Dickens' Great expectations

Kennedy, A. L.2024
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Young orphan Pip, downtrodden and mistreated by his guardian sister, has a terrifying meeting with an escaped convict. Soon afterwards he is invited to play at the gloomy, cobwebbed house of unhappy Miss Havisham, where he is humiliated by her beautiful ward, Estella. Pip falls in love with the girl, despite her disdain for his ignorance and rough appearance, and begins his apprenticeship to his blacksmith brother-in-law feeling ashamed of his lowly home. Then Pip is told he is to be brought up as a wealthy gentleman, and he delightedly assumes his secret benefactor to be Miss Havisham, planning him as a match him for Estella. When he discovers this is not the case, his heart is broken and his loyalties torn. What is the connection between Miss Havisham and the mysterious convict? And will Pip ever win Estella's heart?
Main title:
Charles Dickens' Great expectations / abridged for young readers by A.L. Kennedy.
Imprint:
London : Walker Books, 2024.
Collation:
281 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9781529501926 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTIONFJF
Language:
English
BRN:
3791798
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