{"product_id":"great-expectations-7","title":"Great Expectations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dickens, Charles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Signet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Multicolor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reissue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e mass_market\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Deckle Edge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 03-02-2009\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780451531186\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nFrom the agony of Charles Dickens’ disenchantment with the Victorian middle class comes a novel of spellbinding mystery and a profound examination of moral values.An orphan living with his older sister and her kindly husband, Pip is hired by wealthy and embittered Miss Havisham as a companion for her and her beautiful adopted daughter, Estella. His years in service to the Havishams fill his heart with the desire to rise above his station in life. Pip’s wish is fulfilled when a mysterious benefactor provides him with “great expectations”—the means to be tutored as a gentleman.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThrust into London’s high-society circles, Pip grows accustomed to a life of leisure, only to find himself lacking as a suitor competing for Estella’s favor. After callously discarding everything he once valued for his own selfish pursuits, Pip learns the identity of his patron—a revelation that shatters his very soul.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWith an Introduction by Stanley Weintrauband an Afterword by Annabel Davis-Goff\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\n\"No story in the first person was ever better told.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nAs a child,\u003cbr\u003e\nCharles Dickens (1812–70) came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A surprise legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling. He taught himself shorthand and worked as a parliamentary reporter until his writing career took off with the publication of\u003cbr\u003e\nSketches by Boz (1836) and\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Pickwick Papers (1837). As a novelist and magazine editor, Dickens had a long run of serialized success through\u003cbr\u003e\nOur Mutual Friend (1864–65). In later years, ill health slowed him down, but he continued his popular dramatic readings from his fiction to an adoring public, which included Queen Victoria. At his death,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Mystery of Edwin Drood remained unfinished.\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nStanley Weintraub is the author or editor of more than fifty books of biography, culture history, and military history, including\u003cbr\u003e\nThe London Yankees,\u003cbr\u003e\nWhistler,\u003cbr\u003e\nVictoria, and\u003cbr\u003e\nUncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert. He retired from Pennsylvania State University as Evan Hugh Professor Emeritus and director of Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAnnabel Davis-Goff is the author of\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Dower House, This Cold Country, and\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Fox’s Walk. All three novels were selected by the\u003cbr\u003e\nNew York Times as Notable Books. She is also the author of\u003cbr\u003e\nWalled Gardens, a family memoir, and is\u003cbr\u003e\n editor of\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Literary Companion to Gambling. She now teaches literature at Bennington College.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.      \u003cbr\u003e\nChapter I.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMy father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my\u003cbr\u003e\ninfant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than\u003cbr\u003e\nPip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nI give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone\u003cbr\u003e\nand my sister – Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw\u003cbr\u003e\nmy father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for\u003cbr\u003e\ntheir days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies\u003cbr\u003e\nregarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their\u003cbr\u003e\ntombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea\u003cbr\u003e\nthat he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the\u003cbr\u003e\ncharacter and turn of the inscription, \"Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,\"\u003cbr\u003e\nI drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To\u003cbr\u003e\nfive little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were\u003cbr\u003e\narranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of\u003cbr\u003e\nfive little brothers of mine – who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly\u003cbr\u003e\nearly in that universal struggle – I am indebted for a belief I religiously\u003cbr\u003e\nentertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in\u003cbr\u003e\ntheir trousers-pockets, and ha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780451531186\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50209718337840,"sku":"Trans_9780451531186","price":488.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/715lBsaI4sL.jpg?v=1760170192","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/great-expectations-7","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}